| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, Duncan Garland <duncan(dot)garland(at)ntlworld(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Postgres v MySQL 5.0 |
| Date: | 2006-10-21 16:48:34 |
| Message-ID: | 200610211848.35512.peter_e@gmx.net |
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Duncan Garland wrote:
> >> How do you position Postgres against MySQL 5.0?
> >
> > We don't. We produce useful database software, and people use it
> > or they don't.
>
> That really isn't a helpful answer Peter. On paper, MySQL 5.0 looks
> like a very healthy competitor to PostgreSQL. We all know that MySQL
> 5.0 is still very immature in the feature set that (on paper)
> compares very well with PostgreSQL. This individual obviously does
> not.
The question was how we position Postgres, not how it compares to MySQL.
We haven't ever positioned Postgres. None of our development or
release decisions are concerned with positioning.
--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
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