Re: Why the elephant?

On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 01:25:03PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> In response to "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>:
> > Jim Nasby wrote:
> > > On Jun 8, 2007, at 9:05 AM, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:
> > >> additionally Elephants are known to be gentle to their
> > >> surroundings.
> > >
> > > Huh? Is that before or after they've knocked trees down to feed?
> > > :)
> >
> > Considering they can run 20 miles an hour (faster than the average
> > human) they can knock down as many trees as they want, as long as
> > they aren't chasing me.
>
> Based on the responses to this, perhaps we should add to the list of
> reasons: "Because elephants kick ass!"
>
> I can see the TV commercial in my head, Elephant is stomping on a
> dolphin, announcer says, "PostgreSQL, because elephants kick more
> ass than dolphins."

MySQL hasn't ever been PostgreSQL's competition.  Oracle and MS-SQL
Server are.

Cheers,
D
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