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

Jim C. Nasby wrote:

>On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 01:12:07AM -0300, Guido Barosio wrote:
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>>http://www.cioupdate.com/trends/article.php/3689871
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>>Only one database there, MySQL, wtf.
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>To quote...
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>"To come up with its Top 20 list, OpenLogic, a provider of open source
>solutions that help its 700 Global 2000 enterprise customers acquire,
>support, track and control open source software, queries its customers
>as to which open source software projects they are using."
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>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.
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>PostgreSQL OTOH typically only goes into an organization if they either
>run into problems they can't solve in MySQL or if there's a (loud)
>internal advocate.
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>This is why I disagree with the notion that MySQL isn't our
>competition... this shows how it's popularity ends up hurting us.
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I also find it humorous that vim made the list, but emacs didn't. Note
that I'm a vim user, not an emacs user, so I'm only "amused", not
"annoyed". But it does make me question the accuracy of the list.

Brian