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Re: sun buys mysql


  • From: "Jonah H. Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>
  • To: "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
  • Cc: "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, "Seth Grimes" <grimes(at)altaplana(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: sun buys mysql
  • Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:37:43 -0500
  • Message-id: <36e682920801161737h35da8317r884e0ed4078f3fc8(at)mail(dot)gmail(dot)com>

On Jan 16, 2008 8:26 PM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 18:18 -0500, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
>
> > To be fair, I would say Ingres is still more stable.  There are Ingres
> > systems running without issue since before the PostgreSQL community
> > began.
>
> I heard the latest release had "stability issues and performance
> problems". Someone tried to hire me recently to fix them for a
> government agency (I know which one also), until they found out my
> involvement with Postgres.

As I said, there are Ingres systems that have been running longer than
PostgreSQL has existed.  However, I don't know how stable their latest
stuff is.

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