| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Advocacy Group <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Vertica targeting PostgreSQL users |
| Date: | 2017-11-21 00:04:03 |
| Message-ID: | 20171121000403.ph72qpxwgvj2hyxo@alap3.anarazel.de |
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On 2017-11-20 15:20:21 -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On 11/20/2017 03:03 PM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > > I believe you just made up "fake news" about 2ndQuadrant.
> > >
> > > Please explain your source of this information, or retract and apologise now.
> > I also think that JD misrepresented 2ndQPostgres, which I gather is a
> > set of backpatches for each stable release (it would be nice if that
> > was open source, but that's beside the point).
> I am certainly not intending to misrepresent anyone but the fact that it
> isn't open source is exactly the point.
>
> """
> The majority of features now developed are developed by the needs of not
> PostgreSQL.Org but the needs of 2Q, EDB customers or even Amazon (in a
> different vein).
> """
>
> Nothing wrong with it not being open source but it is clearly driven by a
> need to build up their subscription model.
So basically you critize the companies that actually do postgres
development. Most of the other companies making money with postgres
contribute pretty much no development time back.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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