From: | Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> |
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To: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Fwd: Favorite DB poll on ORA |
Date: | 2004-02-08 20:21:36 |
Message-ID: | m3k72xe2zz.fsf@wolfe.cbbrowne.com |
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, neilc(at)samurai(dot)com (Neil Conway) wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
>> Amusingly, the Firebird people have really learned to rally the
>> troops for these online polls; they're leading this one as well.
>
> ... which really points out what a complete waste of time these kinds
> of internet polls are.
That is certainly the case for this one.
Building a "voting bot" would doubtless be quite easy.
And the results are silly, anyways; it's nothing more than a vague
popularity contest. For instance, I'd rather use Informix than most
of the other options, but its percentage of popularity is just
vanishingly minscule.
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