On Monday, September 9, 2013, Gavin Flower wrote:
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> On 10/09/13 13:21, John R Pierce wrote:
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>> On 9/9/2013 5:39 PM, Sam Hahn wrote:
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>>> How about
>>> "Postgres -the Linux of Data" (or)
>>> "The Linux of DBs"
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>> ugh no. if anything, Mysql is the Linux of data. PostgreSQL is more like the BSD of Data.
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>> --
>> john r pierce 37N 122W
>> somewhere on the middle of the left coast
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> More people have heard of Linux compared to BSD, and the Linux market share is growing faster than BSD's!
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> Note: I am not commenting on the relative technical merits of Linux & BSD.
The basic point that you are missing here is the philosophical
differences between Gnu and BSD.
--patrick