Re: [HACKERS] Enticing interns to PostgreSQL

>>What I'd love to see for PostgreSQL is a more aggressive push on the
>>business side, to get PostgreSQL into the same enterprise accounts
>>that MySQL is starting to get into. Like Zend is to PHP, who is
>>analogous in the PostgreSQL world?
>
>
> IMO I would say the most "zend like" company in the pg community right now is
> Command Prompt, who have been ratcheting up their involvement within the
> community over the last 6 months - 1 year. The caveat here is that unlike
> zend, they have a lot of big companies lurking about that are also players in
> the pg community (sra,fujitsu,pervasive,redhat) that could make very big
> moves if pointed in the right direction.

Also, unlike Zend there is a benefit to the continual cooperative
competition that SRA, Fugitsu etc... have with the community and Command
Prompt.

For example, SRA and Command Prompt are responsible for the
PostgreSQL.Org booth this year at OSCON.

I think in the long run everyone will still exist just like most Linux
distributions still exist but more and more they will specialize in
specific departments.

For example, Command Prompt is probably the most infrastructure focused
of the PostgreSQL companies where someone like Fujitsu focuses more on
serving and existing customer base with a modified version of PostgreSQL.

Pervasive will have their hands full as all there legacy customers come
do and (I assume) that they start moving to Pervasive PostgreSQL.

In all, I think you would be amazed at how aggressive PostgreSQL is on
the business side, we (the community) just do it differently than a lot
of traditional companies.

We have a lot of word of mouth, a lot of the consultants and companies
look out for each other, warning of potential bad customers etc... We
also cooperate to publicize PostgreSQL as a whole.

We don't in general run a lot of press, but then again we typically
don't have to.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

It also remains to be seen just
> what impact enterprisedb and greenplum on this picture; these companies are
> much more business focused, but not exactly focused on pg.
>

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