From: | Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> |
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To: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: On what we want to support: travel? |
Date: | 2006-11-02 17:48:06 |
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On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 04:30:45PM +0100, Stefan 'Kaishakunin' Schumacher wrote:
> Without a large user base, it is hard for a project to survive. See
> all those dead projects at sourceforge and co.
It is very important for us, in this conversation, to understand
something: large user base != people who make a lot of noise on
Slashdot (or wherever you like).
I think there are very good reasons to believe that PostgreSQL _does_
now have a large user base. There are some very significant
companies -- as someone recent pointed out, one of them has a much
larger revenue stream than Oracle Corp -- who have invested in
PostgreSQL. There are some companies for whom PostgreSQL is now a
core part of their now-profitable business. There is also an active
user and development community. These may be areas of relatively
low-profile, quiet growth. If you've ever had a lawn with creeping
charlie in it, though, you will realise that low-profile, quiet
growth does not mean that it is not pervasive and significant.
A
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