Re: O'Reilly Open Source Convention Report

Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Sunday 04 August 2002 10:13 pm, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 14:17, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > We did well I thought, though it still seemed that MySQL had a larger
> > > presence at the conference than PG. Maybe next year ;-)
> >
> > Without flames whats the story there? For example I read an interviwew
> > this week (on the web, cant recall where) where an guy from SUN briefly
> > mentioned putting MySQL up Oracle, in the context of providing a
> > complete package...
> >
> > Wouldn't PostgreSQL be a better contender due to the more advanced
> > features (assuming Mysql has not caught up)
> >
> > My basic understanding was MySQL was being pushed for speed rather than
> > features, whilst PostgreSQL was more feature rich and robust...
> >
> > Any calm and reasond answeres?
>
> If you happen to have the article handy, I would be interested to read it.

Here is the article and interview:

http://news.com.com/2008-1082-947510.html

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