On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Which is precisely why big smart companies divide up projects into smaller teams - to achieve same goal. it is well known fact, that more developers means more chaos, and less done on time. As my friend puts it - you cannot expect 9 pregnant woman to deliver in 1 month :) I know for a fact that microsoft, xensource and few others tackle projects in small teams of brilliant engineers. I don't know how oracle does it, but the whole thing is rather hudge, so there must be quite few developers involved - at least in whole middleware. Installing it on my laptop took about 2 hours (MBP, 2GB of ram, centos) - compared to postgresql... Thank god pg developers not decided to use java gui to 'script' whole thing, I think oracle would be much better off without whole java crap around it (but that's just my opinion). -- GJ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
