From: | "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | "David Fetter" <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
Cc: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Jeff Davis" <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, "Kaare Rasmussen" <kaare(at)jasonic(dot)dk>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL vs. SQL Server, Oracle |
Date: | 2006-10-11 18:08:56 |
Message-ID: | 36e682920610111108x2cace155hacec119be64ea843@mail.gmail.com |
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On 10/11/06, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
> I'd think you of all people would be a little peeved at having your
> support dismissed this way by their failure to mention that your kind
> of support was available.
Neither was ours, but that's not the point behind open source and
PostgreSQL... PostgreSQL is free and available for community-based
support... there's nothing wrong with that and I don't consider it a
dismissal at all.
> That's a start :) You'll notice what I started this off with, which
> is "With friends like these..." These guys wrote a book on
> PostgreSQL. They should know better, but for some reason have decided
> to spread a bunch of FUD.
Honestly, these guys are professional authors who churn out book after
book. They do a little research and write the book; it's in no way
representative of the in-depth knowledge available in the community...
just a good place to start.
I don't think they were spreading FUD, just aiming statements for
small/medium businesses who are paying big bucks for Oracle, SQL
Server, et al. They aren't PostgreSQL professionals... just authors
trying to promote PostgreSQL a little bit. Chill out man :)
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