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

On 13 September 2017 at 23:55, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 9:06 AM, 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.

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> Granted, those statistics are only for 2016.

Statistics change over time. As I have pointed out previously, the
time range you picked for that analysis neatly avoided the work
committed by people just outside that time range, giving a false view
of who does what. There was a large amount of code from 2ndQuadrant
that was rejected in 2016 but committed in 2017, plus other factors.
If you had looked at other time ranges the conclusions would be
different, so its easy to decide which result you wish to highlight
and then pick your query accordingly. So it matters whether you are
discussing submitted/committed (or even reviewed), plus time range
etc., plus type, size, importance of commit.

If you look at 2017 in first 8 months, the figures for commits at
least are different. Certainly when I checked to see if Stephen was
correct, I saw that 2ndQuadrant had committed more than Crunchy. I
haven't checked against EDB, but no doubt you will and I wish you good
luck. I'm sure things will change again in the future.

2ndQuadrant has not tried to perform the most commits, nor do I think
we ever will. What we've tried to do is to build useful features for
PostgreSQL and I'm happy that we've been prominent in that. I am happy
that we're been a catalyst for other people's contributions and if you
can beat 2ndQuadrant, good luck and thanks for contributing to open
source.

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