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

Joe Conway <[email protected]> Tue, 12 Sep 2017 09:26:00 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.db.postgresql.advocacy
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On 09/12/2017 06:51 AM, Chris Travers wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I agree with these points.  Of course a competitive overview by a
> competitor might be taking a different approach for one or a number of
> other reasons.  For example if price is one thing they are covering,
> things would be different if they are covering the official version of
> the software. 

More to the point, they are not even true to their stated thesis:

  "world’s largest organizations are using strategic initiatives to
   replace proprietary databases and expensive licenses with open source
   databases and enterprise subscriptions"

as the referenced version of postgres is a proprietary fork, not open
source.

Joe

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