From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: No awards? |
Date: | 2012-11-04 19:34:32 |
Message-ID: | 5096C348.9040500@agliodbs.com |
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> That's part of it, I'm sure. Unfortunately, a lot of the awards MySQL
> brags about are "reader's choice awards", e.g. from LinuxQuestions.org
> or Linux Journal. And it seems like the trend has been to delegate
> such decision making to the users -- LinuxJournal used to have an
> "Editor's Choice Awards" which Postgres won back in 2006, but sadly it
> seems this was discontinued in favor of the Reader's Choice Awards the
> year after (?). And since there are more users on MySQL, they win
> handily there.
It's actually not a matter of "more users". These are popularity
contests, and the thing which usually wins is the one where someone
organizes a campaign to get reader votes in.
Back in 2004 FirebirdDB swept readers/users choice awards on several
publications/sites through a really determined get-out-the-vote
campaign. Despite never having more than 5% of the market.
--
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com
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