Re: Has anyone seen this marketing gimmick? EnterpriseDB vs MySQL vs MariaDB
Darren Duncan <[email protected]>
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On 2017-09-11 7:19 PM, Stephen Cook wrote: > On 2017-09-11 21:39, Joshua Kramer wrote: >> http://go.mariadb.com/GLBL-WBN_2017-09-19CageMatchIntegratedCampaign_RegistrationLP.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=paid-social&utm_campaign=2017-cage-match-webinar-boost >> >> This is tomorrow, if you are on US time. > > Looks like it is next Tuesday. > > It's presented by the "Senior Director of Product Marketing" for > MariaDB. What do you expect him to do, give a true and unbiased > presentation about the benefits of the competition? Ha ha ha It could be worse. They could decline to mention Postgres at all (just as they declined to mention several other open source DBMSs). The fact that this talk is comparing with Postgres, the Postgres name is getting out there in front of more people, even if the presentation itself is biased against it. Some people choosing to watch the presentation may actually use it as evidence to prefer Postgres for their needs. -- Darren Duncan -- Sent via pgsql-advocacy mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-advocacy