Re: postgre vs MySQL

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On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:05:10 -0400 (EDT)
Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote:
>
> > A silly question in this context: If we know of a company that
> > does use PostgreSQL but doesn't list it anywhere ... can we take
> > the liberty to publicise this somewhere anyway?
>
> Bad idea.

Very bad idea.

> There are companies who consider being listed as a user of
> a product a sort of recommendation of that technology, and
> accordingly they will get really annoyed if you do that when they
> didn't give you permission. This has actually happened, where
> someone has asked to be removed from the list of those using
> PostgreSQL.

Yes it has.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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