Re: Are we losing momentum?

Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 April 2003 05:48, you wrote:
> > Regardless, I'm still of the opinion that if you build it, they will come
> > -- particularly costly features like replication, PITR, etc. But maybe
> > that is what the BSDs say about Linux?
>
> That is an unfair comparison. The technical differences between BSD and linux
> are not as much as postgresql and mysql. Besides what is the parallel of SQL
> standard in OS world? POSIX? And both BSD/linux are doing fine sitting next
> to each other on that.

Agreed, Linux and BSD are pretty close --- but Linux used to be behind
BSD --- they caught up because both are open source. The big question
is whether MySQL (which isn't openly developed) will catch up to
PostgreSQL. And if they do catch up, will we have mind share parity by
that time?

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