Can we please trim this down to just advocacy?
On Jun 18, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
Jonah H. Harris wrote:
On 6/18/07, Andreas Kostyrka <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As a cynic, I might ask, what Oracle is fearing?
As a realist, I might ask, how many times do we have to answer this
type of anti-commercial-database flamewar-starting question?
Depends? How many times are you going to antagonize the people that
ask?
1. It has *nothing* to do with anti-commercial. It is anti-
proprietary which is perfectly legitimate.
2. Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM have a "lot" to fear in the sense of
a database like PostgreSQL. We can compete in 90-95% of cases where
people would traditionally purchase a proprietary system for many,
many thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of dollars.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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