Re: FW: [webmaster] Comparison to MySQL

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar(at)myrealbox(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, PostgreSQL advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: FW: [webmaster] Comparison to MySQL
Date: 2003-11-11 21:32:18
Message-ID: 200311112132.hABLWJE04282@candle.pha.pa.us
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > -- Single-Company Project: the MySQL Project is owned and controlled by a
> >single company, MySQL AB. This means that the project lives or dies with
> >that company, which is currently venture-capital funded.
> >
> >

> This is also inaccurate as MySQL is GPL so the project would live on.

They don't have a development community so that would have to be formed
if the company folds, and as we can see from Firebird/SapDB, that isn't
trivial.

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