| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Chris Travers <chris(at)travelamericas(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Oracle and PostgreSQL... |
| Date: | 2005-10-19 21:45:16 |
| Message-ID: | 4356BE6C.8060400@commandprompt.com |
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>>
>> To the end of dismissing the serious-but-free competition in public.
>> If Oracle is talking to the computer press, they have enough
>> experience to know just how much they can play with stating the way
>> the world is, and have it quoted verbatim as revealed truth. Apart
>> from database weenies like us, people reading the Oracle
>> pronouncement conflating PostgreSQL and other database systems will
>> just think it's true.
>>
> You mean like that RDBMS comparison on Dev-X by the marketing head of
> Daffodil? Somehow I don't think that this is limited to Oracle...
FYI, I have been tasked by Devx to rewrite that comparison.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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