Re: Has anyone seen this marketing gimmick? EnterpriseDB vs MySQL vs MariaDB
Jan Karremans <[email protected]>
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Could it just be that they are scared of PostgreSQL and now single out EDB as a target for a specific market? > On 12 sep. 2017, at 15:51, Chris Travers <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Stephen Frost <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Simon, > > * Simon Riggs ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>) wrote: > > On 12 September 2017 at 13:11, Stephen Frost <[email protected] <mailto:[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. > > 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. > > 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. > > 100% agreed on that point. > > > > > > Thanks! > > Stephen > > > > -- > Best Wishes, > Chris Travers > > Efficito: Hosted Accounting and ERP. Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in. > http://www.efficito.com/learn_more <http://www.efficito.com/learn_more>