> Put another way, MySQL is making a well planned, coordinated effort to
> gain market share as an OSS database. PostgreSQL has no such effort, and
> without it I believe it's headed down the road to eventual obscurity.
> Yet if there was some cooperation between the community and the numerous
> commercial companies, the message of PostgreSQL, and why it's actually
> *better* than MySQL, would be out there for everyone to see.
See this is where I think you are incorrect. There is an effort a very
concerted effort brought on by the commercial entities backing PostgreSQL.
I just had this conversation with a potential customer. They are leaving
Oracle due to costs, and were considering PostgreSQL. One of their
**ahem** executives felt that MSSQL might be a good choice because there
wasn't any "enterprise" users of PostgreSQL.
I shot back the list of enterprise customers that Command Prompt has AND
the list of enterprise customers that the community has.
I don't think there will be a problem :)
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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