Bruce wrote:
Does anyone know of an open source project that *has* successfully
displaced
a market of mature, established products WITHOUT a commercial entity
providing marketing, support direction?
Linux. It doesn't have a single company behind it, but several.
Uh, no. Linux HAD a
Bruce wrote:
Now, if you are asking about marketing, yea, we don't have much in that
area right now, and we need it. I think your point was that we need a
single controlling company to provide marketing because if there are
many, there is little incentive to market PostgreSQL because all
Joshua wrote:
Why would someone fund a new PostgreSQL project when there are several
viable commercial entities doing the job right now?
Four words: size of marketing budget.
As a technology guy, it bugs me to acknowledge that. But having lived
through this a few times, it is the way it
Bruce wrote:
Remember, we all came to PostgreSQL because of the community
development, so we can't expect us to get excited about something that
risks that just to win, as you say. If we had gone in this direction
with Great Bridge, we would have seriously injured PostgreSQL and it
might
