Re: Postgress and MYSQL

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Bob Powell" <Bob(at)hotchkiss(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgress and MYSQL
Date: 2004-01-13 16:51:36
Message-ID: 12244.1074012696@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Bob Powell" <Bob(at)hotchkiss(dot)org> writes:
> I find the recent articles in various trade publications a little
> disturbing due to the lack of PostgrSQL mention.

You are seeing the effects of MySQL AB's large marketing budget;
they have the time and money to cause such articles to appear.
I'm not sure there is much we can do to counter this in the short run.
(I do wonder how quickly they are running through that $19 mil
investment though ...)

regards, tom lane

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