Re: an other provokative question??

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On 09/07/07 01:37, Greg Smith wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
>> Definitely a niche product.
>
> Stonebraker's commentary was unfortunately spun by the ComputerWorld
> columnist.

Tech journalist morphing reality to make a provocative story?

Say in ain't so!

> I hope people followed the link to his actual blog entry at
> http://www.databasecolumn.com/2007/09/one-size-fits-all.html where his
> arguement is that the idea of one database approach always being right
> just isn't true anyway. With that mindset, every technology is a niche
> product of sorts; just the size of the niche varies.

I read something similar by him a few months ago. Very interesting.

> Given past history of this project and its relation to Stonebraker, I
> was tempted earlier today to suggest that the Postgres vs. PostgreSQL
> renaming argument be dropped in favor of renaming the database
> "Horizontica".

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

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