Re: MySQL to PostgreSQL movement

From: Robert Bernier <robert(dot)bernier5(at)sympatico(dot)ca>
To: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: MySQL to PostgreSQL movement
Date: 2005-02-21 16:16:26
Message-ID: 200502211116.26261.robert.bernier5@sympatico.ca
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Yeah I agree. The article is impressive from two stand points:

1. That there is indeed an acknowledgement of a significant amount of
movement between postgres and mysql.

2. Honest commentary is coming out of mysql. We need to keep on supporting
this kind of thing (except of course that business that we're 'only' after
Oracle people).

On February 21, 2005 10:45 am, you wrote:

> > In an interview at LinuxWorld in Boston, Mickos acknowledged some
> > MySQL-to-PostgreSQL movement, but shrugged it off. "They [PostgreSQL]
> > absolutely try to be an Oracle replacement. We do not. We're here for
> > new markets," Mickos told CRN.
> >
> > This very much squares with what we're hearing at the booth at
> > LinuxWorld.
>
> I found that article simply amazing. I would like to put this article
> up on our web site "News" page with the title "MySQL Cedes Oracle-Style
> Market to PostgreSQL". Is that OK? The article certainly has good
> coverage for PostgreSQL, even though the title mentions only MySQL.

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