Re: [HACKERS] Interesting Quote you might enjoy about PGSQL.]

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, webmaster(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Interesting Quote you might enjoy about PGSQL.]
Date: 1999-10-08 18:25:36
Message-ID: 199910081825.OAA01200@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Found this quote by Philip Greenspun (who is unabashedly in love with
> Oracle) in a LinuxWorld article:
> "> The open source purist's only realistic choice for an RDBMS
> > is PostgreSQL (see Resources for the URL). In some ways,
> > PostgreSQL has more advanced features than any commercial
> > RDBMS. Most important, the loosely organized, unpaid
> > developers of PostgreSQL were able to convert to an
> > Oracle-style multiversion concurrency system (see below),
> > leaving all the rest of the commercial competition
> > deadlocked in the dust. If you've decided to accept John

That is am amazing quotation. Vince, can we get a link to it on the
webpage?

> > Ousterhout as your personal savior, you'll be delighted
> > to learn that you can run Tcl procedures inside the
> > PostgreSQL database. And if your business can't live without
> > commercial support for your RDBMS, you can buy it
> > (see Resources for a link).
>
> Cheers! (the full series of articles, which are about AOLserver, is
> available at http://linuxworld.com)
>
> --
> Lamar Owen
> WGCR Internet Radio
> 1 Peter 4:11
>
> ************
>

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