On Jul 2, 2011, at 7:38 AM, Ted Dunning wrote: > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Abhishek Mehta <abhis...@tresata.com>wrote: > >> open and honest conversations on this thread/group, irrespective of >> whether one represents a company or apache, should be encouraged. >> > > Paradoxically, I partially agree with Ian on this. On the one hand, it is > important to hear about alternatives in the same eco-system (and alternative > approaches from other communities). That is a bit different from Ian's > view.
While I don't mind that technical alternatives get discussed, I do get PO'd when the conversation goes into why product X is better than Y, or when someone makes claims that are incorrect because some 'customer' told them and stuff like that. If we can keep it at architecture/approaches instead of why a certain product is better than go right ahead. > > Where I agree with him is that discussions should not be in the form of > simple breast beating. Discussions should be driven by data and experience. > All data and experience are of equal value if they represent quality > thought. The only place that company names should figure in this is as a > bookmark so you can tell which product/release has the characteristic under > consideration. > > >> ... And in that sense we all owe ASF and the hadoop community (and not any >> one company) an equal amount of gratitude, humility and respect. >> > > This doesn't get said nearly enough.
