On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 07:17:13PM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 22:04 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> I remember the president of Great Bridge > > >> saying that the company needs the community, but not visa-vera --- if > > >> the company dies, the community keeps going (as it did after Great > > >> Bridge, without a hickup), but if the community dies, the company dies > > >> too. > > > > > I 95% agree here. If EDB or CMD were go to down in flames, it could hurt > > > the community quite a bit. > > > > Josh, I hate to burst your bubble, but Great Bridge employed a much > > larger fraction of the hacker-community-at-the-time than either EDB or > > CMD do today. We survived that, and if EDB or CMD or Greenplum or the > > entire lot went down tomorrow, we'd survive that too. > > I never once suggested that the community would not survive. I said it > would hurt productivity for "n" amount of time. > > Let's just be realistic here: > > In one fails swoop: > > Devrim, Alvaro, Darcy, Heikki, Bruce, Simon, Greg, Dave, Marc and I are > all suddenly looking for employment...
and by Friday, all are working again, unless they want to take a few weeks off. :) > You don't think there would be an issue that could cause some grief to > the community? Not really. It might cause some personal grief to each, which might cause some temporary loss of productivity. Then again, it might be a stimulating shakeup, or "creative destruction," to borrow a phrase. > Is it surmountable? Of course, that isn't the point. The point is > that it is not painless. Nothing is painless. Cheers, D -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Skype: davidfetter Remember to vote! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
