Re: Your RDBMS Survey ...

Woo hoo!! We are back in the lead ...

thanks Vince :)


On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Vince Vielhaber wrote:

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> This is on their website:
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> 2000-12-04  07:56:51 CET
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> As some people contacted us what was going on with the current survey (the
> PostgreSQL vote significantly decreased from one second to another), we'd like
> to inform you, that, after some additional research, this correction from
> our side turned out to be unjustified.
>
> The decrease was initially done because of a suspicion of mass-voting for the
> item in question. However, the tremendious vote increase for PostgreSQL was
> caused by a group of PostgreSQL supporters rather than abusive behavior.
>
> The number of votes is now reset to the all-time high (1524 votes). We're
> sorry for any excitement this may have caused!
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> On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
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> >
> > A couple of days ago, one of our brethren noticed and pointed us to your
> > survey asking which RDBMS we prefered/were using ... pride in our choice
> > prompted alot of us to pop over to your site and register our vote
> > ... when I put mine in, the results were at something like 1461 for PgSQL
> > and now they are down to 510 ...
> >
> > one of our brethren has seen it be reset back to 450 at least twice so far
> > ...
> >
> > I'm curious ... is this survey supposed to have any accuracy to it, or are
> > the results fixed? *raised eyebrow*
> >
> > Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
> > Systems Administrator @ hub.org
> > primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
> >
> >
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Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org