From: | Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com> |
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To: | Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> |
Cc: | Andrej Ricnik-Bay <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: postgre vs MySQL |
Date: | 2008-03-15 13:58:01 |
Message-ID: | 47DBD5E9.1090908@cheapcomplexdevices.com |
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Greg Smith wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote:
>> A silly question in this context: If we know of a company that does
>> use PostgreSQL but doesn't list it anywhere ... can we take the
>> liberty to publicise this somewhere anyway?
I notice Oracle (and sleepycat before them) had a lot of fun
pointing out when Microsoft uses BDB.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/07-jan/o17opensource.html
You'll find Oracle Berkeley DB "under the hood" in everything
from Motorola cell phones, Microsoft/Groove's collaboration suite
and it seems unlikely Microsoft gave them their blessings.
> Bad idea. There are companies who consider being listed as a user of a
> product a sort of recommendation of that technology, and accordingly
Other reasons a company might get offended by this:
* They might consider it a trade secret and a competitive advantage
over competitors; and internally enjoy giggling when they see
their competitors sign deals with expensive databases.
* They might have a close business partnership with Microsoft
or Oracle that could be strained if they support other databases.
I suspect my employer would not like it announced for both reasons.
> they will get really annoyed...asked to be removed from the list of
> those using PostgreSQL. ... PostgreSQL inside, it's best not to
> publish the results unless you like to collect cease & desist letters.
While I agree companies are likely to get annoyed - just like fast
food companies do when you say how much trans-fats their products
contain; I'm rather curious what such a cease&desist letter would say.
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