Re: Has anyone seen this marketing gimmick? EnterpriseDB vs MySQL vs MariaDB

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: "Tsunakawa, Takayuki" <tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>, 'Stephen Frost' <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Darren Duncan <darren(at)darrenduncan(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Has anyone seen this marketing gimmick? EnterpriseDB vs MySQL vs MariaDB
Date: 2017-09-26 01:21:28
Message-ID: 345d5712-0aee-61f8-2714-c07944d3da3a@commandprompt.com
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On 09/25/2017 06:03 PM, Tsunakawa, Takayuki wrote:
> From: pgsql-advocacy-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
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>> What might be interesting to discuss here is what more we can be doing to
>> make it clear that the PostgreSQL project is independent of any single
>> company and instead has contributions from many, not unlike the Linux
>> Foundation or the Python Foundation.
>
> As a user, what reminds me of a single company is the Windows distribution. The PG package for Windows is provided by EDB, which I think may give an impression that PostgreSQL is a single-vendor open source project. Please don't get me wrong, I'm grateful to EDB for providing an easy-to-use package.

Just FYI, there is also the BigSQL package which is also linked from .Org.

Thanks,

JD

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> Regards
> Takayuki Tsunakawa
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