Re: 8.5 release timetable, again

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:02:31PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> >> That is a slightly alarmist.  Who are we going to lose these
> >> users to?
> 
> > Drizzle.  MySQL forks.  CouchDB.  Any database which has
> > replication which you don't need a professional DBA to understand.
> > Whether or not it works.
> 
> You haven't explained why we'd lose such folk next year when we
> haven't lost them already.  MySQL has had replication (or at least
> has checked off the bullet point ;-)) for years.  I'd be seriously
> surprised if any of the forks will offer significantly better
> replication than is there now, so the competitive situation is not
> changing in that regard.
> 
> It is true that we're missing a chance to pull some folks away while
> the situation on that side of the fence is so messy.  But I don't
> see our situation getting worse because of that, just not getting
> better.

"Not getting better," isn't a situation to be dismissed lightly.  In
FLOSS, as I've seen it, a project whose adoption isn't growing is
dying.

Cheers,
David.
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