Re: Hope for a new PostgreSQL era?

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> I'd like to see the author's thoughts filled out on these points.
> they seem rather vague and overly simplistic, and  I wonder what
> specific points he might have to make rather than this vague "hand
> wavy" list he has so far.
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Additionally I am not entirely sure what he means by the last point.
If you look at the work that NTT along with EDB has put into
Postgres-XC, for example, it looks to me like the Postgres ecosystem
is growing by leaps and bounds and we are approaching an era where
Oracle is no longer ahead in any significant use case.

The thing I am personally worried about is the ability of one company
to dominate the framing of PostgreSQL service offerings. For example
while in the US it hasn't caught on, a lot of people at MYGOSSCON
accepted EnterpriseDB's framing of the official PostgreSQL release as
the "community edition." If you have a single vendor which dominates
the dialogue that's a bad thing. To be clear this isn't a criticism
of EDB. I greatly appreciate the substantial effort they have put
into building Pg awareness here in SE Asia. However, it is a caution
about the recommendation that we need a corporate steward. I argue
corporate stewardship would be a strong net negative because it would
be first and foremost a way to crowd everyone else out. We have
stewardship. It's the core committee, and it's the best kind of
stewardship we can have.

Here's a useful post that I was forwarded by another LSMB developer.
http://openlife.cc/blogs/2010/november/how-grow-your-open-source-project-10x-and-revenues-5x

Additionally, I would suggest that PostgreSQL has a lot of users
because we have a great---and open---community. I think a new
PostgreSQL era is coming but I don't think it will happen the way that
blog poster implies. There is a tremendous need for Pg skills in SE
Asia right now, and I expect this to continue to grow exponentially.

PostgreSQL advancement also by my view is also not merely "not dead"
but in fact accelerating.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers