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

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:

> Simon,
>
> * Simon Riggs (simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com) wrote:
> > On 12 September 2017 at 13:11, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > It certainly would be very generous of you to mention 2ndQuadrant, thank
> you.
>
> 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
> space.

> 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.

>
> 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.
>

100% agreed on that point.

>
> Thanks!
>
> Stephen
>

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