From: | Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> |
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To: | Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
Cc: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Darren Duncan <darren(at)darrenduncan(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Has anyone seen this marketing gimmick? EnterpriseDB vs MySQL vs MariaDB |
Date: | 2017-09-12 16:26:00 |
Message-ID: | 5bb09f3b-af1a-cf13-8701-fe9f479c813e@joeconway.com |
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On 09/12/2017 06:51 AM, Chris Travers wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> I agree that it would have been good for them to include all of the
>> major players when it comes to PG and not just focus on one. The
>> unfortunate reality is that in many other projects there's "the one" big
>> company behind the open source project and few realize that PG has such
>> a great and diverse multi-company ecosystem, even though many of us make
>> a point to bring it up whenever we get the chance.
>
> I agree with these points. Of course a competitive overview by a
> competitor might be taking a different approach for one or a number of
> other reasons. For example if price is one thing they are covering,
> things would be different if they are covering the official version of
> the software.
More to the point, they are not even true to their stated thesis:
"world’s largest organizations are using strategic initiatives to
replace proprietary databases and expensive licenses with open source
databases and enterprise subscriptions"
as the referenced version of postgres is a proprietary fork, not open
source.
Joe
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