-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/07/07 01:37, Greg Smith wrote: > On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> Definitely a niche product. > > Stonebraker's commentary was unfortunately spun by the ComputerWorld > columnist. Tech journalist morphing reality to make a provocative story? Say in ain't so! > I hope people followed the link to his actual blog entry at > http://www.databasecolumn.com/2007/09/one-size-fits-all.html where his > arguement is that the idea of one database approach always being right > just isn't true anyway. With that mindset, every technology is a niche > product of sorts; just the size of the niche varies. I read something similar by him a few months ago. Very interesting. > Given past history of this project and its relation to Stonebraker, I > was tempted earlier today to suggest that the Postgres vs. PostgreSQL > renaming argument be dropped in favor of renaming the database > "Horizontica". - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG4T/TS9HxQb37XmcRAj8gAKC+IeBhW9+0qlrRSiUbVwQH/EiQlACfWxVm Y4uTvkWRDog+W2vPTrULXmQ= =bKYs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/
