Re: Has anyone seen this marketing gimmick? EnterpriseDB vs MySQL vs MariaDB

Stephen Frost <[email protected]> Tue, 12 Sep 2017 09:42:42 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.db.postgresql.advocacy
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Simon,

* Simon Riggs ([email protected]) wrote:
> On 12 September 2017 at 13:11, Stephen Frost <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > If they really wanted to contrast 'open source commitment' between the
> > various vendors, they probably should have considered including the
> > company that actually commits the most code to PG too, but that's
> > starting to show my own bias.
> 
> It certainly would be very generous of you to mention 2ndQuadrant, thank you.

I had been avoiding mentioning any specific compnay names; the point
being that there clearly was little research done by the folks that put
together this upcoming talk into who is doing what in the Postgres
space.

I agree that it would have been good for them to include all of the
major players when it comes to PG and not just focus on one.  The
unfortunate reality is that in many other projects there's "the one" big
company behind the open source project and few realize that PG has such
a great and diverse multi-company ecosystem, even though many of us make
a point to bring it up whenever we get the chance.

What might be interesting to discuss here is what more we can be doing
to make it clear that the PostgreSQL project is independent of any
single company and instead has contributions from many, not unlike the
Linux Foundation or the Python Foundation.

Thanks!

Stephen

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