Re: Another news story in need of 'enlightenment'

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Another news story in need of 'enlightenment'
Date: 2001-04-18 19:52:58
Message-ID: 200104181952.f3IJqw217601@candle.pha.pa.us
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> On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 01:31:43PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > This one probably needs the 'iron hand and the velvet paw' touch. The
> > iron hand to pound some sense into the author, and the velvet paw to
> > make him like having sense pounded into him. Title of article is 'Open
> > Source Databases Won't Fly' --
> > http://www.dqindia.com/content/enterprise/datawatch/101041201.asp
>
> This one is best just ignored.
>
> It's content-free, just a his frightened opinions. The only thing
> that will change his mind is the improvements planned for releases
> 7.2 and 7.3, and lots of deployments. Few will read his rambling.

My head hurt after I read it. :-)

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