| From: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Bernier <robert(dot)bernier5(at)sympatico(dot)ca> |
| Cc: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: 10g v. PostgreSQL 8.0 v. MySQL 5 |
| Date: | 2005-12-15 22:05:39 |
| Message-ID: | 20051215220539.GI40699@pervasive.com |
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On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 03:58:33PM -0500, Robert Bernier wrote:
> Folks,
>
> It was pointed out that I struck a nerve in my last posting. There's always a polite way of voicing criticism. It would have made for a less confrontational argument if I had taken my happy pill this morning and stuck to the facts that I was arguing rather than ranting with strange sounds coming from my mouth about somebody I've never met.
>
> For the record, I am quite prepared to defend my analysis of the methodology used in the the article itself.
FWIW, I never claimed the article was good. ;) I just thought it was
interesting that the author went in with a pro-Oracle bias and ended up
judging us the winner (even though at least one of his scores for
PostgreSQL was lower than deserved be a wide margin).
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