Re: FOSDEM 2008 - Devroom and booth

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <adsmail(at)wars-nicht(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: FOSDEM 2008 - Devroom and booth
Date: 2007-12-01 22:12:28
Message-ID: 1196547148.7894.10.camel@mha-laptop.clients.sollentuna.se
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-advocacy


On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 22:55 +0100, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:42:57 -0500 Robert Treat wrote:
>
> > On Saturday 01 December 2007 05:59, Gregory Stark wrote:
> > >
> > > Will MySQL be there? I wonder if we could get someone from each side and do
> > > a MySQL v Postgres shootout. Perhaps in the form of some kind of academic
> > > debate or something with 30s per side back and forth...
> > >
> > > It would be terrible from a traditional marketing point of view (it would
> > > end up being mostly "look at all the terrible things the other guy does").
> > > But I'm sure it would be a crowd pleaser and it's the kind of thing Open
> > > Source can do openly in good humour that proprietary software does with
> > > malice behind closed doors.
> >
> > AIUI, Susanne Ebrecht will be there, does she count? :-)
>
> No ;-)

Why not? She could do both sides of the shootout.. ;-)

//Magnus

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-advocacy by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Pavel Stehule 2007-12-01 23:48:09 inaccuracy in presskit 8.3
Previous Message Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum 2007-12-01 21:55:26 Re: FOSDEM 2008 - Devroom and booth