On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I think one of the points that proves this is the chunks of innovative code that have been put into postgresql that were basically written by one or two guys in < 1 year. Small sharp teams can tackle one particular problem and do it very well in an open source project. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
