Re: Has anyone seen this marketing gimmick? EnterpriseDB vs MySQL vs MariaDB

Could it just be that they are scared of PostgreSQL and now single out EDB as a target for a specific market?

> On 12 sep. 2017, at 15:51, Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net <mailto:sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>> wrote:
> Simon,
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> * Simon Riggs (simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com <mailto:simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>) wrote:
> > On 12 September 2017 at 13:11, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net <mailto:sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>> wrote:
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> > > If they really wanted to contrast 'open source commitment' between the
> > > various vendors, they probably should have considered including the
> > > company that actually commits the most code to PG too, but that's
> > > starting to show my own bias.
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> > It certainly would be very generous of you to mention 2ndQuadrant, thank you.
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> I had been avoiding mentioning any specific compnay names; the point
> being that there clearly was little research done by the folks that put
> together this upcoming talk into who is doing what in the Postgres
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> What might be interesting to discuss here is what more we can be doing
> to make it clear that the PostgreSQL project is independent of any
> single company and instead has contributions from many, not unlike the
> Linux Foundation or the Python Foundation.
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> 100% agreed on that point.
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> Thanks!
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> Stephen
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> Best Wishes,
> Chris Travers
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