Re: [GENERAL] trash talk

2004-08-05 Thread Greg Stark
"Scott Marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is less than a year after the last major release, 7.3.0 by the way. Uhm. Wasn't 7.4 the last major release? -- greg ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives?

Re: [GENERAL] trash talk

2004-08-05 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 09:01, Scott Ribe wrote: > > Interesting, IBM is saying that the code is worth 85M dollars! > > Well... Actually they're saying: "we paid $85M for it, now we're giving it > away, aren't we generous?" Hey guys, after reading the article, I began a dialog with Lisa Vaas, the a

Re: [GENERAL] trash talk

2004-08-05 Thread Scott Ribe
> Interesting, IBM is saying that the code is worth 85M dollars! Well... Actually they're saying: "we paid $85M for it, now we're giving it away, aren't we generous?" -- Scott Ribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.killerbytes.com/ (303) 665-7007 voice ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [GENERAL] trash talk

2004-08-04 Thread Dave Cramer
Interesting, IBM is saying that the code is worth 85M dollars! On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 00:19, Scott Ribe wrote: > > I could be reading it incorrectly, but the paragraph was outside any > > attributed quote: > > You are correct that the specific comment about pg not thriving was outside > any quotes

Re: [GENERAL] trash talk

2004-08-04 Thread terry
The problem is that postgres has failed to thrive as a web based back end database. Ever heard of the LAMP soluton? Linux + Apache + Mysql + Php. Its unfortunate, but real. Its easy to find hosting with Mysql db, its not as easy (although getting more common I think) to find hosting with Pos

Re: [GENERAL] trash talk

2004-08-03 Thread Scott Ribe
> I could be reading it incorrectly, but the paragraph was outside any > attributed quote: You are correct that the specific comment about pg not thriving was outside any quotes. However, given the totality of the references to pg I think it was a summary of some things Rivot said. As for the poin

Re: [GENERAL] trash talk

2004-08-03 Thread Mike Mascari
Scott Ribe wrote: That's because he's a marketeer, not a developer or a sysadmin. He only understands market-speak. No, I think he fully understands the relative position of PostgreSQL and its level of use. Think about it, why did he choose to disrespect this one particular open-source database o

Re: [GENERAL] trash talk

2004-08-03 Thread Bruce Momjian
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 > >

Re: [GENERAL] trash talk

2004-08-03 Thread Scott Ribe
> That's because he's a marketeer, not a developer or a sysadmin. He only > understands market-speak. No, I think he fully understands the relative position of PostgreSQL and its level of use. Think about it, why did he choose to disrespect this one particular open-source database out of all the

Re: [GENERAL] trash talk

2004-08-03 Thread Scott Marlowe
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 a