From: | Roy Hann <specially(at)processed(dot)almost(dot)meat> |
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To: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Time to dust off your Ingres migration skills |
Date: | 2011-10-03 11:50:26 |
Message-ID: | j6c7i2$ngm$1@speranza.aioe.org |
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Joshua Berkus wrote:
>> Aligning yourself with comments from Monash reflects poorly on you.
>
> I wasn't familiar with Mr. Monash before. My apologies for linking to
> him, then!
You will have seen Simon Riggs comments on this.
> Note that the rename of the company and the "new direction" has been
> similarly received by other news sources.
Most that I've seen have been fairly neutral reports of fact. None that
I've seen have riffed on it much.
> And by customers; the way I
> found out about it is that a company called me about migration to
> Postgres from Ingres and sent me the link as why they were looking into
> it.
Oh dear. One would hope that as a matter due diligence they'd check
with the company or the user groups to see if any of his claims hold
up. They don't. New development continues apace; new customers are
signing up, and revenue is way up. All that has happened is the
marketing team has chosen a new focus. As you noted yourself recently,
getting media attention for a DBMS is a tough job. So they've looked
for another door to push on. Good for them.
If anything, a new product line that utterly depends on the core
products should reassure everyone that the core products are still core!
> If I were an Ingres geek, I'd be looking hard at establishing a
> developer community outside of Actian corp. Let me know if you want to
> set up a fund with SPI!
I think we'd better wait until I'm "rehabilitated" here before pursuing
that, but the kindness of your offer is noted.
--
Roy
UK Ingres User Association Conference 2012 will be on Tuesday June 19 2012.
*NOTE THE CHANGED DATE* See www.uk-iua.org.uk
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