From: | Rushan <rushan(dot)chen(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> |
Cc: | Brian Ghidinelli <brian(at)pukkasoft(dot)com>, SF Postgres <sfpug(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: AWS adds MySQL |
Date: | 2009-10-28 20:43:35 |
Message-ID: | 54eaf7480910281343g673ae709w19bee6a365c54af3@mail.gmail.com |
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Another company making the move in that direction is Teradata:
not sure if Amazon will pick this one up as hosted service.
Rushan
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 13:40 -0700, Brian Ghidinelli wrote:
> > It would be great promotion for it to be natively
> > supported on Amazon.
>
> This is an issue for -advocacy, I think. Try running postgresql in
> various cloud environments, show off the cool stuff, and report the bad
> stuff. I'm sure you could make some interesting articles, and postgresql
> could get some good press.
>
> Running database systems in a cloud is fairly experimental. So,
> experimentation and results tend to get press attention.
>
> You make a good point that we want PostgreSQL to be a prominent player
> in any successful experiments. However, we don't want to pretend that
> any database system in the cloud is more stable and predictable than it
> actually is. Otherwise, we just end up with disappointed users.
>
> Regarding Amazon specifically: if customers demand it, they will provide
> it.
>
> Regards,
> Jeff Davis
>
>
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