On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Jonah H. Harris wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > The difference is HE put forth an opinion about the pg developers
>> > being smarter, but you put forth what seems like a statement of fact
>> > with no evidence to back it up. One is quite subjective and open for
>> > debate on both sides, and often to good effect. The other is a
>> > statement of fact regarding scalability in apparently all usage
>> > circumstances, since it wasn't in any way clarified if you were
>> > talking about a narrow usage case or all of the possible and / or
>> > probably ones.
>>
>> Agreed. It's just that, because I know quite a few of the engineers
>> working on Oracle and SQL Server, it generally pisses me off to see
>> people make blanket statements about one group being smarter than
>> another when they probably have no basis for comparison. It's all
>> good though, I'm just cranky tonight.
>
> I am sure there are smart people at all the database companies. I do
> believe that open source development harnesses the abilities of its
> intelligent people better than commercial companies.
I think one of the points that proves this is the chunks of innovative
code that have been put into postgresql that were basically written by
one or two guys in < 1 year. Small sharp teams can tackle one
particular problem and do it very well in an open source project.