| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | 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 16:33:07 |
| Message-ID: | 200206251633.g5PGX7X23492@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> Also, I am concerned about the focus on MySQL as our "only competitor".
> Frankly, I have never regarded MySQL as our primary competitor; that
> spot is reserved for Microsoft SQL Server. Especially with the death
> of SQL Anywhere, Postgres and MS SQL are the two major databases in the
> transaction/vertical application space for the budget-minded business
> (although MS SQL is considerably less budget-minded than it was a year
> ago).
>
> 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.
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