On Sunday 08 December 2002 06:14 pm, Vince Vielhaber wrote: > On 8 Dec 2002, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 22:27, Vince Vielhaber wrote: > > > On 8 Dec 2002, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > > If something is familiar, it feels safe. We need to make PostgreSQL > > > > familiar. That's why we need marketing. > > > > > > Then why wasn't mysql in the list? It's familiar. > > > > To PHBs? > > I would argue yes. Everywhere you turn you see "Powered by MySQL". > If years of working on it isn't getting them the familiarity to overcome > the PHBs then the PHBs are either not considering open source or the > marketing attempts aren't strong or capable enough to penetrate. >
I don't think mysql has penetrated the "enterprise class/ mission critical" mindest, which is the level our service had to be provided that. To be honest, it was tough to argue PostgreSQL belonged in that group, though we had a good 2 years worth of history in actually running the business on PostgreSQL which couldn't be dismissed. Of course, some of these companies weren't too happy things were running on linux, and not aix or solaris; are we seeing a pointy haired trend here? Personally I never understood why our sales guys didn't just tell them "ok we'll port the service to oracle/solaris for you, but it's going to cost you at least twice what it does now, if not three times. Oh, and you won't see any better performance." Robert Treat ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
