Обсуждение: News of the LJ award has hit Slashdot
And people are falling all over each other to gush about how great PostgreSQL is. :-) http://it.slashdot.org/it/04/08/15/0214254.shtml?tid=221&tid=218
Steve Bergman wrote: > And people are falling all over each other to gush about how great > PostgreSQL is. :-) > > http://it.slashdot.org/it/04/08/15/0214254.shtml?tid=221&tid=218 Agreed, it was a very gushy thread. I sent it to the internal SRA email list. :-) -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073
Oops! steve@rueb.com (Steve Bergman) was seen spray-painting on a wall: > And people are falling all over each other to gush about how great > PostgreSQL is. :-) > > http://it.slashdot.org/it/04/08/15/0214254.shtml?tid=221&tid=218 The lastest relevant Slashdot thread has something of a "feeding frenzy" about the latest convulsions about the latest MySQL licensing changes. Quite entertaining; the more it continues, the less there is need for advocacy efforts here ;-). -- select 'cbbrowne' || '@' || 'ntlug.org'; http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/lisp.html Rules of the Evil Overlord #99. "Any data file of crucial importance will be padded to 1.45Mb in size." <http://www.eviloverlord.com/>
Chris, > The lastest relevant Slashdot thread has something of a "feeding > frenzy" about the latest convulsions about the latest MySQL licensing > changes. Quite entertaining; the more it continues, the less there is > need for advocacy efforts here ;-). Au contraire, buddy. MySQL was never who we've needed to beat; in fact, their PR did a lot of good for OSS databases in general. Who we need PR to fight is Microsoft, DB2 and Oracle. Not that I'm not getting some guilty enjoyment out of Monty & David's faux passes ... -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco
On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 20:39 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > Au contraire, buddy. MySQL was never who we've needed to beat; in fact, > their PR did a lot of good for OSS databases in general. Who we need PR to > fight is Microsoft, DB2 and Oracle. > Nevertheless, there's never been a better time to emphasize PostgreSQL's BSD licensing. Should something like "PostgreSQL 8.0.0 is the first BSD licensed full fledged RDBMS with native Win32 support" or something be worked into the press release, I wonder? (And is that even true?) -Steve Bergman
> Bruce Momjian > Steve Bergman wrote: > > And people are falling all over each other to gush about how great > > PostgreSQL is. :-) > > > > http://it.slashdot.org/it/04/08/15/0214254.shtml?tid=221&tid=218 > > Agreed, it was a very gushy thread. Very little compelling reason to use MySQL anymore (Score:5, Informative) by kcbrown (7426) <slashdot@sysexperts.com> on Sunday August 15, @07:35AM (#9973157) In short, PostgreSQL has gotten very, very good in a relatively short period of time. It's so good compared with the other freely-available databases out there that I can't really think of a compelling reason to use anything else -- it's so good that if you need something more capable then you're going to have to pay big, big money. ... In short, PostgreSQL deserves very much to win this award, and the PostgreSQL development crew deserves a ton of kudos for producing such a kickass database system. ...
> Steve Bergman > And people are falling all over each other to gush about how great > PostgreSQL is. :-) > > http://it.slashdot.org/it/04/08/15/0214254.shtml?tid=221&tid=218 > I think we should also have a vote of thanks to Josh Berkus for his advocacy work..... Slashdot didn't find out about it by accident... Best regards, Simon Riggs
Simon, > I think we should also have a vote of thanks to Josh Berkus for his > advocacy work..... > > Slashdot didn't find out about it by accident... Thanks, but I can't take credit for either the award or the Slashdotting. Nor can I take credit for all of PostgreSQL's advocacy; I just do my share of it and get to wear the pointy hat by picking up the slack. Bruce, Robert T., Robert B., Greg, Peter, David F., Elein, Alvaro, Josh D., Dan, Ned, etc., etc. And Rueven Lerner, who is probably responsible for the LJ award. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco