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

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 4:42 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> Simon,
>
> * Simon Riggs (simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com) wrote:
>> On 12 September 2017 at 13:11, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> It certainly would be very generous of you to mention 2ndQuadrant, thank you.
>
> I had been avoiding mentioning any specific compnay names; the point
> being that there clearly was little research done by the folks that put
> together this upcoming talk into who is doing what in the Postgres
> space.
>
> I agree that it would have been good for them to include all of the
> major players when it comes to PG and not just focus on one. The
> unfortunate reality is that in many other projects there's "the one" big
> company behind the open source project and few realize that PG has such
> a great and diverse multi-company ecosystem, even though many of us make
> a point to bring it up whenever we get the chance.
>
> What might be interesting to discuss here is what more we can be doing
> to make it clear that the PostgreSQL project is independent of any
> single company and instead has contributions from many, not unlike the
> Linux Foundation or the Python Foundation.

This is what I always said in Russia, that our community is truly
independent hardcore open source community. Is there any plan for
Postgres promotion at any major opensource conferences like Fosdem ?
We might submit a talk to main track and explain people the difference
(philosophical) between Postgres and MySQL/MariaDB, for example.

>
> Thanks!
>
> Stephen