Re: Sun-Oracle lovefest: PostGreNeverMind

The free Oracle deal is limited to their high end Sparc servers, which (according to the article) are losing market share. It is not offered for their Opteron servers, which seem to be gaining share due to superior design. I think these are mostly different markets. Oracle on the proprietary architecture servers, PostgreSQL on the commodity architecture servers. Seems a reasonable strategy to me.

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[mailto:pgsql-advocacy-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org]On Behalf Of Joshua D. Drake
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 10:00 AM
To: Ned Lilly
Cc: PostgreSQL Advocacy
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Sun-Oracle lovefest: PostGreNeverMind

Ned Lilly wrote:

> http://news.com.com/2100-1012-6025568.html
>
> "The bigger the machine, the cooler this gets," Sun CEO Scott McNealy
> said at a Sun-Oracle employee town hall meeting at Oracle headquarters
> where the deal was announced. "We're going to effectively give you the
> Oracle database for free with a year of support with our new pricing
> model."

I don't read it as PostGreNeverMind. I read it as Oracle has more
mindshare, marketshare and more money then PostgreSQL so it makes darn
good business
sense to have a partnership with Oracle as well.

Sun is going to go where the money is. There is not a ton of money in
PostgreSQL or MySQL (although a heck of a lot more in MySQL).

Joshua D. Drake

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