Re: (wtf) Top 20 Open Source Software Projects inthe Enterprise

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Simon Riggs wrote:

>On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 18:49 -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>> The reason MySQL shows and PostgreSQL doesn't is that there's all
>> kinds of other OSS projects that use MySQL, so it ends up in the door
>> that way. It's also got way more people that know it.

> With the recent TPC-E result and the new async commit functionality, I'm
> hoping to be able to persuade other projects that supporting PostgreSQL
> as well as MySQL is the sensible thing to do.

Well, those thing might help a little bit, but I think the real holdup
here is the lack of simple ports for a lot of existing software. Sure
would be nice if EnterpriseDB and other Postgres-supporting companies
could dedicate a person or two to help out in that regard. A definitive
Postgres Wordpress port would be nice, for example. It would also be nice
is the advocacy group could make a list of software that needs to be ported,
and what the status of any port is. Come to think of it, that would be a
good thing to put on the wiki... done:

http://developer.postgresql.org/index.php/Software_Ports

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