Jonah H. Harris wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The difference is HE put forth an opinion about the pg developers > > being smarter, but you put forth what seems like a statement of fact > > with no evidence to back it up. One is quite subjective and open for > > debate on both sides, and often to good effect. The other is a > > statement of fact regarding scalability in apparently all usage > > circumstances, since it wasn't in any way clarified if you were > > talking about a narrow usage case or all of the possible and / or > > probably ones. > > Agreed. It's just that, because I know quite a few of the engineers > working on Oracle and SQL Server, it generally pisses me off to see > people make blanket statements about one group being smarter than > another when they probably have no basis for comparison. It's all > good though, I'm just cranky tonight. I am sure there are smart people at all the database companies. I do believe that open source development harnesses the abilities of its intelligent people better than commercial companies. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
