| From: | "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jonathan(dot)katz(at)excoventures(dot)com> |
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| To: | damien clochard <damien(at)dalibo(dot)info> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: That's official : we're now winning popularity contests :) |
| Date: | 2014-03-05 15:48:51 |
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On Mar 5, 2014, at 6:37 AM, damien clochard wrote:
> From databasefriends.co :
> http://www.databasefriends.co/2014/03/favorite-relational-database.html
>
> While the fact that PostgreSQL is more popular than Oracle doesn't
> surprise me, I always thought MySQL was way ahead of us and their claim
> to be "the most popular database" was hardly arguable...
>
> Turns out in this poll PostgreSQL has 41% and MySQL 15%.
>
> Of course this is just a poll on a database blog. But they had 900+
> answers so it's not completely meaningless :)
Having people like PostgreSQL is the first step towards growing the install base and it is definitely a feeling we should continue to help cultivate amongst database enthusiasts (after all, it's nice to be liked :-)
The question then becomes, how do we turn people like PostgreSQL into more production installs? That, of course, is the harder problem, but winning popularity contests is a good start towards getting more people to use PostgreSQL.
Jonathan
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