Re: News of the LJ award has hit Slashdot

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: News of the LJ award has hit Slashdot
Date: 2004-08-17 03:39:46
Message-ID: 200408162039.46269.josh@agliodbs.com
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Chris,

> The lastest relevant Slashdot thread has something of a "feeding
> frenzy" about the latest convulsions about the latest MySQL licensing
> changes. Quite entertaining; the more it continues, the less there is
> need for advocacy efforts here ;-).

Au contraire, buddy. MySQL was never who we've needed to beat; in fact,
their PR did a lot of good for OSS databases in general. Who we need PR to
fight is Microsoft, DB2 and Oracle.

Not that I'm not getting some guilty enjoyment out of Monty & David's faux
passes ...

--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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