| From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)cvc(dot)net>, Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] MySQL gets $19.5 MM |
| Date: | 2003-06-21 14:40:52 |
| Message-ID: | 20030621113420.F51411@hub.org |
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On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
> The core committee has spent a fair amount of time worrying about
> exactly this issue, as first Great Bridge and later Red Hat threatened
> to become the 800-pound gorilla. As a former employee of the former and
> a current employee of the latter, I may not be the most unbiased
> observer available to comment on the issue --- but I can tell you that
> it's something I do think about.
As one that was very resistent to GreatBridge (and not so much to RedHat),
I can't say that my worries at the time were justified ... in both cases,
both companies have allowed Tom to spend a *great* deal of time working on
the larger features, features that may have been alot slower (and more
difficult) to implement otherwise ...
I have no doubt that some of those features were 'pushed to the top of the
TODO list' due to their business case, but I can't think of any that were
against teh desires of the community ... were there?
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