Re: What can we learn from MySQL?

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: What can we learn from MySQL?
Date: 2004-04-28 19:30:41
Message-ID: 200404281230.41129.josh@agliodbs.com
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Scott,

>Personally, I don't care if
> postgresql captures 1% of the market of 99% of the market, as long as it
> remains the solid, reliable dbms engine it is.

I agree that we don't have to have a majority of the market to be
"successful." However, there is a very accurate adage in both business and
politics: "If you're not growing, you're shrinking."

We need to continue to grow, not necessarily to take over the market, but to
make sure that we don't disappear entirely. I don't want to be the
"betamax of databases".

--
-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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