Re: Sun Pushing MySQL but Mentions PostgreSQL

On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 21:46, Jim Caley wrote:

> But then I came across an article by InfoWorld's Steve Gillmor
> (http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/08/19/020819opcurve.xml)
> where the same Jonathan Schwartz says, "We will go drive Linux like a
> wedge. We will go hollow out DB2 and WebSphere with either a free
> database or a free app server. We can give away the Apache Web server,
> Postgres, a free directory, a free messaging system, a free calendar and
> free portal, a free infrastructure. All of it for free for 100 users,
> and we can still make money. Microsoft can't."
>
> The "Postgres" seems to have been thrown into his little riff casually;
> it's not "official" like the MySQL in LAMP. But I thought it was
> interesting nonetheless.

Maybe the guys from RHDB have been showing them some stuff??? =;-D

If they want to go up against MS-SQL and not Access then it seems like a
logical thing to do. After all, _we_ all know that an intranet web
application running on Tomcat/JBoss would bring MySQL to its knees with
100 users...

Cheers

Tony Grant

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