Re: That's official : we're now winning popularity contests :)

Does anyone know the people behind this?

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Jonathan S. Katz <
jonathan(dot)katz(at)excoventures(dot)com> wrote:

> 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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