Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 13:30, David Parker wrote: > > In an article about IBM's releasing Cloudscape to Apache, > > > > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1630856,00.asp > > > > eWeek says: > > > > "The developer community for Cloudscape now consists of about 80 IBM > > developers, Rivot said. IBM of course anticipates that population will > > explode when the open-source community gets its hand on the code, but > > just because a product goes open source doesn't mean it will succeed, as > > can be witnessed by the failure of the PostgreSQL database to thrive > > under this model." > > > > It's amazing how much list activity there is for this "dead" database! > > ;-) > > That's because he's a marketeer, not a developer or a sysadmin. He only > understands market-speak. > > For him, thrive == grow visible market share, make me some money, let me > buy myself an expensive bottle of wine. > For us, thrive == grow user base, developer base, code base, knowledge > base, let me buy a you a pizza. > > I.e. the people who use postgresql mostly love, the people who don't > mostly haven't heard of it. No buzz, no hype. For people who rely on > PostgreSQL to get the job done, this is not a disadvantage.
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