On what it takes to maintain the right balance between a company and an open source community. Excerpts of the conversation are shared here.
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proprietary infrastructure and get into an open source domain where they can have better control. Yet another thing that I want to highlight is the concept of open source. One can't really adopt open source in a mission critical or, for that matter, a non-mission critical environment without a big company supporting it. In the database space, with Postgres being such a good contender, there is a huge demand and bnterpriseDB is emerging as that leader. It is opening up a whole new opportunity for IT professionals to look at and a whole new way to think about databases. QOf
course one cannot deny that PostgreSQL is emerging as one of the most competitive players. At one point in time, Monty Widenius, founder of MySQL, said “…it's time to seriously review how MySQL server is being developed and change the development model to be more like …PostgreSQL.” What do you think could have prompted him to make a statement like that? The Postgres community is remarkably strong and independent with many developers and companies supporting the creation of the technology. This fosters a very healthy open source project. It removes the possibility of an acquisition of a particular company or the possibility of taking away the independent nature of that database. gust like Linux, this makes PostgreSnL a more compelling and attractive technology for business’ and government to use. QWhat
do you think are the basic differences between the two development models of MySQL and PostgreSQL? The most obvious and important difference is that the MySnL brand was predominantly owned and managed by a single company. The community of contributors