On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'd like to see the author's thoughts filled out on these points. > they seem rather vague and overly simplistic, and I wonder what > specific points he might have to make rather than this vague "hand > wavy" list he has so far. > > Additionally I am not entirely sure what he means by the last point. If you look at the work that NTT along with EDB has put into Postgres-XC, for example, it looks to me like the Postgres ecosystem is growing by leaps and bounds and we are approaching an era where Oracle is no longer ahead in any significant use case. The thing I am personally worried about is the ability of one company to dominate the framing of PostgreSQL service offerings. For example while in the US it hasn't caught on, a lot of people at MYGOSSCON accepted EnterpriseDB's framing of the official PostgreSQL release as the "community edition." If you have a single vendor which dominates the dialogue that's a bad thing. To be clear this isn't a criticism of EDB. I greatly appreciate the substantial effort they have put into building Pg awareness here in SE Asia. However, it is a caution about the recommendation that we need a corporate steward. I argue corporate stewardship would be a strong net negative because it would be first and foremost a way to crowd everyone else out. We have stewardship. It's the core committee, and it's the best kind of stewardship we can have. Here's a useful post that I was forwarded by another LSMB developer. http://openlife.cc/blogs/2010/november/how-grow-your-open-source-project-10x-and-revenues-5x Additionally, I would suggest that PostgreSQL has a lot of users because we have a great---and open---community. I think a new PostgreSQL era is coming but I don't think it will happen the way that blog poster implies. There is a tremendous need for Pg skills in SE Asia right now, and I expect this to continue to grow exponentially. PostgreSQL advancement also by my view is also not merely "not dead" but in fact accelerating. Best Wishes, Chris Travers -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
