Re: Well, Pervasive is now out....

My guess is what this really means is they weren't making money on it. Its a community friendly spin to suggest that community support is so good that not many companies will pony up for commercial support. My guess is that its fairly accurate though. A company is only going to use postgreSQL if their dba is behind it and for that to be the case the dba is probably pretty comfortable with their own knowledge backed by community support.
If its not the dba who is promoting pgsql in the company then it is likely an exec who sees it as a way to save money and likely doesn't want to pay for support for a free product.

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----- Original Message ----
From: Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Sent: Thursday, August 3, 2006 2:58:03 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Well, Pervasive is now out....

On 8/3/06, Tony Caduto <tony_caduto(at)amsoftwaredesign(dot)com> wrote:
> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6100795.html

Let's believe that that was the real reason... :-)

"
...
In a letter to the PostgreSQL community of developers, Pervasive
Software President John Farr said last week that the company
"underestimated the high level of quality support and expertise
already available within the PostgreSQL community."
...
"

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Best regards,
Nikolay

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