Bruce wrote:
> Now, if you are asking about marketing, yea, we don't have much in that
> area right now, and we need it. I think your point was that we need a
> single controlling company to provide marketing because if there are
> many, there is little incentive to market PostgreSQL because all
Scott Marlowe wrote:
> While Apache is and has been wildly popular for bulk hosing and domain
> parking, for serious commercial use, Netscape's enterprise server, now Sun
> One, has long been a leader in commercial web sites.
Netscrape/SunONE may have been a leader in some sub-market, but this m
Bruce wrote:
> > Does anyone know of an open source project that *has* successfully
displaced
> > a market of mature, established products WITHOUT a commercial entity
> > providing marketing, support & direction?
>
> Linux. It doesn't have a single company behind it, but several.
Uh, no. Linux
Joshua wrote:
> Why would someone fund a "new" PostgreSQL project when there are several
> viable commercial entities doing the job right now?
Four words: "size of marketing budget".
As a technology guy, it bugs me to acknowledge that. But having lived
through this a few times, it is the way
Bruce wrote:
> Remember, we all came to PostgreSQL because of the community
> development, so we can't expect us to get excited about something that
> risks that just to "win", as you say. If we had gone in this direction
> with Great Bridge, we would have seriously injured PostgreSQL and it
> m
