Re: Democracy and organisation : let's make a

From: "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Democracy and organisation : let's make a
Date: 2002-06-25 17:36:32
Message-ID: 200206251336.32707.matthew@zeut.net
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> > When we've crushed MS SQL, then it's time to take on Oracle and DB2.
>
> I think Oracle is our main competitor. We seem to get more people
> porting from Oracle than any other database, and our feature set matches
> there's most closely.

But if we had a native windows port, I think we would here of a lot more MS
SQL Server converts.

Also, I think that expending effort on a windows port will be a net win as it
it will generate a new userbase and with it more developers. Good or bad,
windows has a large marketshare.

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