Re: DRAFT: v7.3 Release Announcement

I would have to agree with that, I would say that most
of the tech community at large is ignorant of Postgres,
and I didn't even find out about it myself, until I started
investigating MySQL.

Oracle on the other hand is known by everybody.

One interesting thing that I want to add to this
discussion, which I'm sure some of you have heard,
and probably already mentioned, is that SAP released
a free version of its database, called SAPDB.
Now, when I think of "ultra enterprise level software"
I think of SAP. Perhaps making one of those comparison
charts and including SAPDB in there, we can piggyback
on their name and use it to our advantage.

I also believe, (but cannot confirm) that Sybase
offers an older version of their Adaptive Server
for the Linux platform, for free.

----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 16:59:19 -0500
To: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] DRAFT: v7.3 Release Announcement

> On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 02:14:10PM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> > By "general tech press" I mean, for example, News.com and the
> > Washingtion Post Business/Tech page. As opposed to "open source
> > press", such as NewsForge and The Register, who would probably cover us
> > even if we just forwarded them a mailing list message.
>
> In that case, I think we can safely say that the general tech world
> doesn't really know what PostgreSQL is. Oracle's attempt to attack
> PostgreSQL during the .org bids was either totally uninformed about
> what PostgreSQL is; or, it was _not_ uninformed, but it was relying
> on the general lack of knowledge. One way or another, it was
> obviously relying on the general impresison that free RDBMS == MySQL
> (and that in a version without, e.g., InnoDB tables). This is just
> an observation, mind you; I barely even read the tech press, never
> mind understand what is likely to attract attention from them.
>
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