Re: Oracle buying Sleepycat, JBoss, and - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Oracle buying Sleepycat, JBoss, and
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In response to Re: Oracle buying Sleepycat, JBoss, and  (Chris Browne <[email protected]>)
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> Those factors definitely *don't* suck if you are the owner of the
> code.
>
>
Keep in mind that the GPL has enabled mySQL to make 20-30 million
bucks in the last year.

And although we may think that MySQL sucks and we do have lots
of converts. I know many, many businesses that are perfectly happy
with it.

Nobody in the PostgreSQL community is even close to make 20-30 million
bucks ON PostgreSQL.

Joshua D. Drake

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