Re: Need for PostgreSQL demand?

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Kevin Hunter <hunteke(at)earlham(dot)edu>
Cc: ioguix <ioguix(at)free(dot)fr>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Postgres Advocacy List <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Need for PostgreSQL demand?
Date: 2007-11-06 15:12:49
Message-ID: 20071106071249.79067ab9@scratch
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On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:28:24 -0500
Kevin Hunter <hunteke(at)earlham(dot)edu> wrote:

> That said, *my* first thought on a killer app for this era (~2008)
> lies more along the lines of relying heavily on the database but
> hiding that fact from the end-user. I know that it has so far proven
> infeasible, but what about something like a DB-backed filesystem?

PostgreSQL has had killers apps for years, PostGIS anyone?

The problem is we don't have the killer monkey app, e.g;

We don't have SugarCRM (thank god, that code is horrendous).
We don't have 100% Drupal support.

etc...

Joshua D. Drake

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