Re: Commission clears Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Commission clears Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems
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Msg-id 20100122202016.GA3959@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Commission clears Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
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David Fetter escribió:

> > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:37 PM, damien clochard <damien@dalibo.info> wrote:
> > > Sounds like a syllogism to me :
> > >
> > >  (A) There should be alternatives to Oracle  and (B) PostgreSQL is
> > > a credible alternative to MySQL  So (C) Oracle can buy MySQL

> Now as to whether MySQL would be a "credible alternative" to
> PostgreSQL...well, only one person I've talked with who's ever worked
> there has said anything of the kind, and he was in sales, and it was
> 2002.

I think "being a credible alternative" is not commutative, so I see no
problem here.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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