Re: Postgress and MYSQL

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bob Powell <Bob(at)hotchkiss(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgress and MYSQL
Date: 2004-01-13 17:04:19
Message-ID: 20040113130403.R45512@ganymede.hub.org
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On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Tom Lane wrote:

> "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 ...)

Let's see if they can beat GB? *evil grin*

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