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On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 02:29:07AM +0100, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:08:27 -0400
> Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > "Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej.groups@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > > On 14/03/2008, rrahul <rahul.rathi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >> I see Mysql bosting for Google,Yahoo, Alcatel......
> > >> What about Postgres the list is not that impressive.
> > 
> > > What then?  Could it be marketing or the sad results of a
> > > avalanche effect? Geee, there's a thought.
> > 
> > Marketing.  Remember that MySQL AB have a strong financial
> > incentive to make organized efforts to locate and publicize
> > impressive-sounding users of MySQL. (I've heard rumors they even
> > give licensing discounts to companies that will let their names be
> > used like that.)
> > 
> > There is no comparable effort happening on the Postgres side.
> > There are plenty of impressive users of PG too, but they don't have
> > to talk about it.
> 
> I still find impressing that Google uses MySQL... I can guess why,

What makes you so sure Google don't use PostgreSQL *as well*?

(hint: we don't force them to tell you about it...)

//Magnus

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