Re: Slashdot: SAP and MySQL Join Forces

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Slashdot: SAP and MySQL Join Forces
Date: 2003-05-26 23:29:44
Message-ID: 20030526232944.GG3366@dcc.uchile.cl
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On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 01:57:34AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> In case you've not checked out Slashdot in the last day or two:
> http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/23/1826202&mode=thread&tid=137&tid=198
>
> I tend to agree with the viewpoint that getting anything useful out of
> such a merger will be a difficult project.

Quite difficult, I think. Unless there's a lot of work already done
under cover, it will probably be quite some time before real usable
software emerges. In the mean time we have to make sure to have a
really good product so we can compete when (and if) there's something
coming our way.

--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"I call it GNU/Linux. Except the GNU/ is silent." (Ben Reiter)

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