Re: Has anyone seen this marketing gimmick? EnterpriseDB vs MySQL vs MariaDB

Darren, all,

* Darren Duncan (darren(at)darrenduncan(dot)net) wrote:
> On 2017-09-11 7:19 PM, Stephen Cook wrote:
> >On 2017-09-11 21:39, Joshua Kramer wrote:
> >>http://go.mariadb.com/GLBL-WBN_2017-09-19CageMatchIntegratedCampaign_RegistrationLP.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=paid-social&utm_campaign=2017-cage-match-webinar-boost
> >>
> >>This is tomorrow, if you are on US time.
> >
> >Looks like it is next Tuesday.
> >
> >It's presented by the "Senior Director of Product Marketing" for
> >MariaDB. What do you expect him to do, give a true and unbiased
> >presentation about the benefits of the competition? Ha ha ha
>
> It could be worse. They could decline to mention Postgres at all
> (just as they declined to mention several other open source DBMSs).

Unfortunately, they aren't really talking about PG there, it would seem.

Or, if they are, they've completely misunderstood that PG is not one
company's product but rather an independent open source project which
has lots of companies contributing to it.

If they really wanted to contrast 'open source commitment' between the
various vendors, they probably should have considered including the
company that actually commits the most code to PG too, but that's
starting to show my own bias.

Thanks!

Stephen