From: | Jim Caley <caley(at)chesco(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Sun Pushing MySQL but Mentions PostgreSQL |
Date: | 2002-08-20 19:46:25 |
Message-ID: | 3D629C91.4020303@chesco.com |
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A while back in the "read this and puke" thread, some were bemoaning
Sun's LAMP initiative, where the 'M' stands for MySQL. I was just
reading about this in eWeek
(http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,476267,00.asp) and doing a little
bemoaning myself. The article quotes Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's new head
of software, explaining it.
But then I came across an article by InfoWorld's Steve Gillmor
(http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/08/19/020819opcurve.xml)
where the same Jonathan Schwartz says, "We will go drive Linux like a
wedge. We will go hollow out DB2 and WebSphere with either a free
database or a free app server. We can give away the Apache Web server,
Postgres, a free directory, a free messaging system, a free calendar and
free portal, a free infrastructure. All of it for free for 100 users,
and we can still make money. Microsoft can't."
The "Postgres" seems to have been thrown into his little riff casually;
it's not "official" like the MySQL in LAMP. But I thought it was
interesting nonetheless.
Jim Caley
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