Re: The Business Case for PostgreSQL

xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net (Robert Treat) writes:
> On Sunday 17 June 2007 23:10, Chris Browne wrote:
>> "From the outset, PostgreSQL was constructed to meet the goals of
>> active businesses which could rely on it as a core element of their
>> mission-critical IT infrastructure."
>>
>> Nope. At the outset, it was constructed as a research project. When
>> it became an OSS project, I'm not sure those were yet the goals.
>
> Yeah, this one is probably more problematic. Could it be argued
> that, having created one system and seeing how it fared
> commercially, that Stonebreaker & Co. did have in mind the idea of
> POSTGRES becoming a basis for a commercial system as well? Maybe
> someone from the "Old School" can comment?

There is another possible interpretation for this, namely that the
"outset" refers to the time at which Postgres95 transformed into the
"open source" project called PostgreSQL. *Perhaps* that could
describe how things were at that time.

Although the reports seem to more be about the goals in those days
being to get PostgreSQL to stop crashing and losing data. I'm not
sure that gives something particularly good to point to :-(.

It seems safer to me to point back to the "research project" past, and
to point out that this means Postgres was expected to have "bleeding
edge" features. That may undercut the desire to say what is in that
first paragraph up top, but if that paragraph isn't really true, we
can't say it :-(.
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