| From: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
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| To: | jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com |
| Cc: | decibel <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Rob Napier <rob(at)doitonce(dot)net(dot)au>, PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Forrester: Ingres and MySQL Lead Open Source Databases |
| Date: | 2009-08-21 22:50:26 |
| Message-ID: | 407d949e0908211550i64a37465gef3926db69997e03@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Joshua D. Drake<jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> I do not think we should stop advocating. I think we should be doing so
> smartly. Dealing with Forester or any of the other shills is a waste of
> energy. Let EDB deal with that.
>
> We as a community should be focusing on recruiting -hackers and people
> who are going to use the database. Django developers, Rails developers,
> PostGIS etc... We don't have to (nor should we want to) give donkey spit
> about business uptick. The oustide developers and companies surrounding
> us will take care of that.
Uhm, yeah. What he said.
Who would have thought it would be JD who would bring this
conversation to a practical and productive place?
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