Re: an other provokative question??

On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Ron Johnson wrote:

> Definitely a niche product.

Stonebraker's commentary was unfortunately spun by the ComputerWorld
columnist.  I hope people followed the link to his actual blog entry at
http://www.databasecolumn.com/2007/09/one-size-fits-all.html where his
arguement is that the idea of one database approach always being right
just isn't true anyway.  With that mindset, every technology is a niche
product of sorts; just the size of the niche varies.

Given past history of this project and its relation to Stonebraker, I was
tempted earlier today to suggest that the Postgres vs. PostgreSQL renaming
argument be dropped in favor of renaming the database "Horizontica".

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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD