Re: 9.5 Release press coverage

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 9.5 Release press coverage
Date: 2016-01-08 18:59:41
Message-ID: 5690071D.4060705@commandprompt.com
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On 01/08/2016 10:08 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote:

>>> Yeah, that's a chronic problem. The press can't seem to get their heads
>>> around the idea that PostgreSQL isn't owned by a single company.
>>
>> They somehow mostly got the idea that Linux isn't. How did that work?
>
> I would say Linus sounding off at regular intervals made that plain:)

That and there is a history with Linux that PostgreSQL does not have. At
the height of Linux fever there was:

RedHat
Caldera
TurboLinux
SuSE

etc....

For PostgreSQL, there is: EDB.

The rest of us (CMD, 2Q, OmniTI, etc...) are all just service providers.
EDB is the only "distribution" of PostgreSQL.

JD

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