On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:02:31PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> writes: > >> That is a slightly alarmist. Who are we going to lose these > >> users to? > > > Drizzle. MySQL forks. CouchDB. Any database which has > > replication which you don't need a professional DBA to understand. > > Whether or not it works. > > You haven't explained why we'd lose such folk next year when we > haven't lost them already. MySQL has had replication (or at least > has checked off the bullet point ;-)) for years. I'd be seriously > surprised if any of the forks will offer significantly better > replication than is there now, so the competitive situation is not > changing in that regard. > > It is true that we're missing a chance to pull some folks away while > the situation on that side of the fence is so messy. But I don't > see our situation getting worse because of that, just not getting > better.
"Not getting better," isn't a situation to be dismissed lightly. In FLOSS, as I've seen it, a project whose adoption isn't growing is dying. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers