Re: Are we losing momentum?

From: Sailesh Krishnamurthy <sailesh(at)cs(dot)berkeley(dot)edu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Are we losing momentum?
Date: 2003-04-15 03:13:55
Message-ID: bxyistgsb9o.fsf@datafix.CS.Berkeley.EDU
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>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

Tom> But I do sometimes worry that we are losing the mindshare
Tom> war. We might be growing fine, but if we're growing slower
Tom> than MySQL is, we've got a problem. I was just in the local

This is probably true. Once people get exposed to PostgreSQL then
there is a fair chance of forming an opinion. Today one of the
undergraduates in my class was telling me how after hacking pgsql
internals he has such a different impression of the two systems
(earlier he'd built a site with MySQL going by the "works for
slashdot" philosophy).

--
Peace, at last ?
Sailesh
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sailesh

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