Re: Forrester: Ingres and MySQL Lead Open Source Databases

From: "Paragon Corporation" <lr(at)pcorp(dot)us>
To: "'Josh Berkus'" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "'Leif B(dot) Kristensen'" <leif(at)solumslekt(dot)org>
Cc: "'PostgreSQL Advocacy'" <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Forrester: Ingres and MySQL Lead Open Source Databases
Date: 2009-07-16 20:46:27
Message-ID: 8FDADA17CD3448EF8E1EAEFE214F5937@b
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>> Yeah. PostgreSQl lacks <availability, security and performance
>> qualities of enterprise class databases> which MySQL obviously has.
>
>> Whoever inventented this bullshit must have been paid a serious amount
>> of money from somewhere.

> No, it's actually a combination of other things, mostly that I didn't have
any time to follow up with Forrester this spring, and nobody was available
to help. Sometimes
> the fact that we're an OSS project and not a company with full-time
marketing staff bites us on the tuchas.

> I'll talk to Forrester and see how we can improve this.

I would tend to agree with Leif on this one. I mean they didn't even spell
IBM Informix right. Or is there really an IBM Informatix I don't know
about.

Also why are the stats downloadable from Ingres site and not Forrester? I
know they made it clear that Ingres did not pay for this review but when a
review leads to a site that is flashing in the title, it does make me a bit
suspicious of its influences regardless of what is said. Perhaps I'm just
being needlessly paranoid.

Thanks,
Regina

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