From: | Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> |
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To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Call from Info World |
Date: | 2003-11-20 22:07:31 |
Message-ID: | 1069366051.10333.11481.camel@camel |
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On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 15:46, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Bruce,
>
Here is the article:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/11/20/HNpostgre_1.html
> > Interestingly, in trying to think of a visible open source project that
> > isn't controlled by a company, I couldn't think of one. Mozilla, PHP,
> > Apache, MySQL, even perhaps Linux have one very visible company that has
> > significant control over the project, while we do not. Is there a good
> > example someone can think of?
>
> Perl, amanda, Python, OpenACS and LTSP come to mind.
>
Hmm... I don't see amanda, openacs, or ltsp all that visible to the
greater tech (ie. commercially driven) community, and Perl and Python
aren't really the same; there not a piece of software like postgresql.
> I also get the impression that there's been a significant split between Zend
> Inc. and the larger PHP community lately (over Parrot, mostly, I think), so
> Zend obviously don't "control" the PHP project.
>
Well... I don't know that I would say they control the project, but it
does seem that php's advances are directly linked to the direction of
Zend. The whole zend engine underscores the point, and I think that a
lot of the OO stuff in php5 was "eagerly desired" by the zend folks.
The truth is that to be a "name" project you need to interface with the
media, and the media is generally best at interfacing with companies.
Robert Treat
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