| From: | Doug McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org> |
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| To: | Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Ned Lilly <ned(at)nedscape(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: MySQL and RHDB news; 8.0 troll |
| Date: | 2003-04-14 18:57:47 |
| Message-ID: | m38yucaous.fsf@varsoon.wireboard.com |
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Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org> writes:
> While I may be a UNIX gear-head, I found this quote interesting and
> should be encouraging to the PostgreSQL Win32 developers:
>
> "What's more, the company said, downloads of Microsoft versions of
> MySQL outnumber Linux versions by at least four to one."
That may be partly because MySQL is included in Red Hat and most other
distributions (as is PG)--people are much less likely to download it
from mysql.com unless they need the latest version for some reason.
-Doug
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