LWM 2004 Readers' Choice Nomination

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#1Robert Diamond
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#2Ed L.
pgsql@bluepolka.net
In reply to: Robert Diamond (#1)
Re: LWM 2004 Readers' Choice Nomination

On Thursday March 24 2005 7:07, rdiamond@sys-con.com wrote:

Thank you for registering!

http://www.sys-con.com/linux/readerschoice2004

Curiously, I see PostgreSQL is not even on the ballot I see at
the site above for Best Linux Database ... could be a browser
config issue, but I do see the other popular linux dbs listed...

Ed

#3Joshua D. Drake
jd@commandprompt.com
In reply to: Ed L. (#2)
Re: LWM 2004 Readers' Choice Nomination

On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 11:03 -0700, Ed L. wrote:

On Thursday March 24 2005 7:07, rdiamond@sys-con.com wrote:

Thank you for registering!

http://www.sys-con.com/linux/readerschoice2004

Curiously, I see PostgreSQL is not even on the ballot I see at
the site above for Best Linux Database ... could be a browser
config issue, but I do see the other popular linux dbs listed...

I don't see PostgreSQL either. That seems very odd as we are the second
widest used OSS database on Linux.

Ed

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#4Kevin Murphy
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In reply to: Joshua D. Drake (#3)
Re: LWM 2004 Readers' Choice Nomination

On Mar 28, 2005, at 1:40 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

I don't see PostgreSQL either. That seems very odd as we are the second
widest used OSS database on Linux.

Yeah, they might as well just put up a graph of advertising dollars by
database instead of these poll results ;-)

Kevin Murphy

#5Chris Browne
cbbrowne@acm.org
In reply to: Robert Diamond (#1)
Re: LWM 2004 Readers' Choice Nomination

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, pgsql@bluepolka.net ("Ed L.") wrote:

On Thursday March 24 2005 7:07, rdiamond@sys-con.com wrote:

Thank you for registering!

http://www.sys-con.com/linux/readerschoice2004

Curiously, I see PostgreSQL is not even on the ballot I see at
the site above for Best Linux Database ... could be a browser
config issue, but I do see the other popular linux dbs listed...

There's nothing curious about it.

PostgreSQL isn't paying them any advertising dollars, and isn't a
"commercial product" that people pay dollars for.

If you review the items on the "ballot," you'll find a virtually
complete absence of "free software" on the list of products for people
to vote for.

This particular poll isn't about "open source" or "free software;" it
is about what are the most popular _commercial products_ for Linux.

_Pervasive PostgreSQL_ or _Mammoth PostgreSQL_ would be the relevant
_products_ to suggest, not the "free software" database, PostgreSQL.
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#6Chris Browne
cbbrowne@acm.org
In reply to: Robert Diamond (#1)
Re: LWM 2004 Readers' Choice Nomination

jd@commandprompt.com ("Joshua D. Drake") wrote:

On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 11:03 -0700, Ed L. wrote:

On Thursday March 24 2005 7:07, rdiamond@sys-con.com wrote:

Thank you for registering!

http://www.sys-con.com/linux/readerschoice2004

Curiously, I see PostgreSQL is not even on the ballot I see at
the site above for Best Linux Database ... could be a browser
config issue, but I do see the other popular linux dbs listed...

I don't see PostgreSQL either. That seems very odd as we are the
second widest used OSS database on Linux.

The poll isn't about "OSS"; it's a popularity contest for proprietary
software that runs on Linux.
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#7Robin Ericsson
robin.ericsson@profecta.se
In reply to: Chris Browne (#6)
Re: LWM 2004 Readers' Choice Nomination

Christopher Browne wrote:

The poll isn't about "OSS"; it's a popularity contest for proprietary
software that runs on Linux.

It's interesting to see that MySQL is only third at the moment.

regards,
Robin

#8Robert Diamond
rdiamond@sys-con.com
In reply to: Joshua D. Drake (#3)
Re: LWM 2004 Readers' Choice Nomination

You may add a product to the awards at:
http://www.sys-con.com/linux/readerschoice2004/addentry.cfm

Best Regards,

Robert

Joshua D. Drake wrote:

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On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 11:03 -0700, Ed L. wrote:

On Thursday March 24 2005 7:07, rdiamond@sys-con.com wrote:

Thank you for registering!

http://www.sys-con.com/linux/readerschoice2004

Curiously, I see PostgreSQL is not even on the ballot I see at
the site above for Best Linux Database ... could be a browser
config issue, but I do see the other popular linux dbs listed...

I don't see PostgreSQL either. That seems very odd as we are the second
widest used OSS database on Linux.

Ed

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