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Forrester: Ingres and MySQL Lead Open Source Databaseshttp://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Forrester-Ingres-and-MySQL-Lead-Open-Source-Databases
Forrester: Ingres and MySQL Lead Open Source Databases Jul 14, 2009 Market researcher Forrester Research investigated the suitability of database systems for enterprise deployment and found that the Ingres and MySQl alternatives take the lead positions after IBM, Oracle and Microsoft. The Forrester study has the market giants IBM, Microsoft and Oracle with 88% of the share in enterprise databases. They found their lead to be due mainly to high performance, availability and scalability. Second place finishers were cost beneficial offerings from Computer Associates, Software AG and Sybase. Current competition also comes from IBM Informatix and open source products Ingres and MySQL, which Forrester considers appropriate for the small to medium size enterprise market. The U.S. marketing firm praises Ingres as the open source database with the best enterprise features, even when it isn't the best known. Its optimal deployment is for less than 1 TByte databases with maximum a thousand concurrent users. Unfortunately only a few ready-made applications have Ingres. The study has MySQL with open-minded features, even compared to the proprietary products. Forrester also points to its large user community. MySQL works best for databases up to 1 TByte. Many applications support the open source database, although some important ones such as Peoplesoft, SAP and Siebel still do not. In comparison, PostgreSQL might have the largest developer community, but has hardly any distribution among vendors. In Forrester's view it lacks the availability, security and performance qualities of enterprise class databases. The market firm based their study on 150 criteria and a sample of 21 manufacturers and corporate clients. The study is available as a free 25-page PDF after registration at Ingres. Forrester Research claims that the study is independent of, and was not commissioned by, Ingres. ----- Yeah. PostgreSQl lacks «availability, security and performance qualities of enterprise class databases» which MySQL obviously has. Whoever inventented this bullshit must have been paid a serious amount of money from somewhere. -- Leif Biberg Kristensen | Registered Linux User #338009 Me And My Database: http://solumslekt.org/blog/ -- Sent via pgsql-advocacy mailing list (pgsql-advocacy@...) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-advocacy |
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Re: Forrester: Ingres and MySQL Lead Open Source Databases> Yeah. PostgreSQl lacks «availability, security and performance qualities > of enterprise class databases» which MySQL obviously has. > > Whoever inventented this bullshit must have been paid a serious amount > of money from somewhere. No, it's actually a combination of other things, mostly that I didn't have any time to follow up with Forrester this spring, and nobody was available to help. Sometimes the fact that we're an OSS project and not a company with full-time marketing staff bites us on the tuchas. I'll talk to Forrester and see how we can improve this. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. www.pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-advocacy mailing list (pgsql-advocacy@...) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-advocacy |
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Re: Forrester: Ingres and MySQL Lead Open Source Databases>> Yeah. PostgreSQl lacks <availability, security and performance >> qualities of enterprise class databases> which MySQL obviously has. > >> Whoever inventented this bullshit must have been paid a serious amount >> of money from somewhere. > No, it's actually a combination of other things, mostly that I didn't have any time to follow up with Forrester this spring, and nobody was available to help. Sometimes > the fact that we're an OSS project and not a company with full-time marketing staff bites us on the tuchas. > I'll talk to Forrester and see how we can improve this. I would tend to agree with Leif on this one. I mean they didn't even spell IBM Informix right. Or is there really an IBM Informatix I don't know about. Also why are the stats downloadable from Ingres site and not Forrester? I know they made it clear that Ingres did not pay for this review but when a review leads to a site that is flashing in the title, it does make me a bit suspicious of its influences regardless of what is said. Perhaps I'm just being needlessly paranoid. Thanks, Regina -- Sent via pgsql-advocacy mailing list (pgsql-advocacy@...) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-advocacy |
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Re: Forrester: Ingres and MySQL Lead Open Source Databases> Also why are the stats downloadable from Ingres site and not Forrester? I > know they made it clear that Ingres did not pay for this review but when a > review leads to a site that is flashing in the title, it does make me a bit > suspicious of its influences regardless of what is said. Perhaps I'm just > being needlessly paranoid. The reviews are only available to paying clients. So only a paying client can publicize the review. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. www.pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-advocacy mailing list (pgsql-advocacy@...) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-advocacy |
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Re: Forrester: Ingres and MySQL Lead Open Source DatabasesOn Jul 16, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> Yeah. PostgreSQl lacks «availability, security and performance >> qualities >> of enterprise class databases» which MySQL obviously has. >> >> Whoever inventented this bullshit must have been paid a serious >> amount >> of money from somewhere. > > No, it's actually a combination of other things, mostly that I > didn't have any time to follow up with Forrester this spring, and > nobody was available to help. Sometimes the fact that we're an OSS > project and not a company with full-time marketing staff bites us > on the tuchas. Have we looked at paying someone to be responsible for PR? I'm not thinking a PR firm or anything, but someone in the community who is actually charged with being responsible for dealing with PR. That would mean we don't have to worry about the "outside world" not having a point of contact, and we would also be able to make sure we have case studies and what-not. -- Decibel!, aka Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect decibel@... Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 -- Sent via pgsql-advocacy mailing list (pgsql-advocacy@...) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-advocacy |
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Re: Forrester: Ingres and MySQL Lead Open Source DatabasesHi!
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:34 AM, decibel<decibel@...> wrote: > Have we looked at paying someone to be responsible for PR? I'm not thinking > a PR firm or anything, but someone in the community who is actually charged > with being responsible for dealing with PR. That would mean we don't have to > worry about the "outside world" not having a point of contact, and we would > also be able to make sure we have case studies and what-not. It's an interesting idea, but who would they report to and be accountable to? I think it would be more productive to come up with a series of small projects that people inside the community want to work on, and empower them - through money or other kinds of support of the project - to do things that help us all. -selena -- http://chesnok.com/daily - me http://endpoint.com - work -- Sent via pgsql-advocacy mailing list (pgsql-advocacy@...) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-advocacy |
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Re: Forrester: Ingres and MySQL Lead Open Source DatabasesOn Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Rob Napier<rob@...> wrote:
> FMTCW > > Below is an email I received a couple of days ago from one of the best-known > US PR distribution companies. How amusing. So they're spamming you with a pitch based on avoiding a spammer blacklist? > Certainly, the value would justify the investment. How does it result in Postgres being better software? -- greg http://mit.edu/~gsstark/resume.pdf -- Sent via pgsql-advocacy mailing list (pgsql-advocacy@...) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-advocacy |
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Re: Forrester: Ingres and MySQL Lead Open Source DatabasesNo. Firstly, I have been a customer of theirs, so it is not spam. Secondly, they are a PR distribution house. They maintain a database of contacts for journalists. This is the bread and butter of PR consultants. The ad is simply claiming to offer more targeted mail outs to avoid being seen as a spammer. And at the risk of suggesting that your response confirms my point, PR is not a simple process. It needs to be done by people who really understand the complexities of getting quality stories placed. On 20/8/09 8:03 PM, "Greg Stark" <gsstark@...> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Rob Napier<rob@...> wrote: >> FMTCW >> >> Below is an email I received a couple of days ago from one of the best-known >> US PR distribution companies. > > How amusing. So they're spamming you with a pitch based on avoiding a > spammer blacklist? > >> Certainly, the value would justify the investment. > > How does it result in Postgres being better software? Regards Rob Napier |
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Re: Forrester: Ingres and MySQL Lead Open Source DatabasesOn Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Rob Napier<rob@...> wrote:
> No. Firstly, I have been a customer of theirs, so it is not spam. > > Secondly, they are a PR distribution house. They maintain a database of > contacts for journalists. This is the bread and butter of PR consultants. > The ad is simply claiming to offer more targeted mail outs to avoid being > seen as a spammer. Well I don't think we should be spamming no matter how targeted and no regardless of how a PR person thinks it should be seen. > And at the risk of suggesting that your response confirms my point, PR is > not a simple process. It needs to be done by people who really understand > the complexities of getting quality stories placed. I still don't see how getting stories "placed" leads to good software. I would rather believe that good software will lead to stories than the other way around. -- greg http://mit.edu/~gsstark/resume.pdf -- Sent via pgsql-advocacy mailing list (pgsql-advocacy@...) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-advocacy |
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Re: Forrester: Ingres and MySQL Lead Open Source DatabasesIdentify/create a newsworthy story that will be regarded by one or more sectors of the media as being of interest to their readership/viewers/listeners. Prepare a media release that has the main ‘grab’ in the first paragraph. Media releases are hierarchical: Most important paragraph at the top down to the least important paragraph at the end. Why? Because journalists and editors are basically lazy. When a story doesn’t fit, they just cut sentences off the bottom of the story until it does fit! Now we’re on to distribution. And the example I gave of EPR – one of the most respected PR distribution houses – helps PR consultants/in-house PR staff to get their stories to the right journalists at the right publications. There is no point sending a story about PostgreSQL to Zoo News – even if your logo is an elephant! It must be relevant to the readership. And in large media outlets, targeting the Journalist who has a history of covering a particular topic adds credibility and increases the likelihood that a media release will be well received and will run. Anyway, I think I have said enough on the topic. This started as a discussion about getting timely media releases prepared. Selena suggested that it could be done by volunteers. I don’t think it can. But if there are people who want to try, I wish them luck. As I wrote earlier. It is bloody hard work! It’s not simply a matter of writing a story and expecting journalists to run it. On 20/8/09 11:03 PM, "Greg Stark" <gsstark@...> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Rob Napier<rob@...> wrote: >> No. Firstly, I have been a customer of theirs, so it is not spam. >> >> Secondly, they are a PR distribution house. They maintain a database of >> contacts for journalists. This is the bread and butter of PR consultants. >> The ad is simply claiming to offer more targeted mail outs to avoid being >> seen as a spammer. > > Well I don't think we should be spamming no matter how targeted and no > regardless of how a PR person thinks it should be seen. > > >> And at the risk of suggesting that your response confirms my point, PR is >> not a simple process. It needs to be done by people who really understand >> the complexities of getting quality stories placed. > > I still don't see how getting stories "placed" leads to good software. > I would rather believe that good software will lead to stories than > the other way around. Regards Rob Napier |
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Re: Forrester: Ingres and MySQL Lead Open Source DatabasesOn Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Rob Napier<rob@...> wrote:
> Anyway, I think I have said enough on the topic. This started as a > discussion about getting timely media releases prepared. Selena suggested > that it could be done by volunteers. I don’t think it can. But if there are > people who want to try, I wish them luck. As I wrote earlier. It is bloody > hard work! It’s not simply a matter of writing a story and expecting > journalists to run it. No, at least according to gmail's threading this conversation started with yet another ill-informed Forrester report and Josh saying that the reason it was ill-informed was because he didn't have time to get back to them. I would dispute that premise and in fact say that it's probably for the best that we didn't speak to Forrester. He said he would try to reach them now but a) I doubt they'll be interested and b) I doubt it would work out for the best. Forrester has little more credibility than Gartner group or other paid shill analysts. They publish reports which are invariably complimentary for the companies on their client list. Anyone else who speaks to them or provides data inevitably finds their own words or data being twisted to benefit their paymasters. In addition to Postgres not being as scalable or reliable as MySQL did you know that Linux distributions take longer to release security patches than Microsoft? Thank Redhat for providing the raw data which led to that conclusion. c.f. http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2004/04/05/201601/forrester-study-questions-linux-security.htm http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=178601879 In short Forrester, Gartner, and others like them are not your friends. I would urge Josh and others to avoid giving them any quotes or data which will only lend them credibility. If you want to rebut the article the strategy to use would be what Redhat did to that linux security report. Make sure there's a contact for responsible journalists to call and have at your ready rebuttal arguments. There will be plenty of journalists who don't bother calling, especially if as in this case Postgres is just an afterthought, but real journalists will call whoever has the most to lose and get "balance" quotes. -- greg http://mit.edu/~gsstark/resume.pdf -- Sent via pgsql-advocacy mailing list (pgsql-advocacy@...) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-advocacy |
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Re: Forrester: Ingres and MySQL Lead Open Source DatabasesOn Thu, 2009-08-20 at 14:37 +0100, Greg Stark wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Rob Napier<rob@...> wrote: > > Anyway, I think I have said enough on the topic. This started as a > > discussion about getting timely media releases prepared. Selena suggested > > that it could be done by volunteers. I don’t think it can. But if there are > > people who want to try, I wish them luck. As I wrote earlier. It is bloody > > hard work! It’s not simply a matter of writing a story and expecting > > journalists to run it. > > No, at least according to gmail's threading this conversation started > with yet another ill-informed Forrester report and Josh saying that > the reason it was ill-informed was because he didn't have time to get > back to them. You also have to remember that both Ingres and MySQL are companies. They will always tend to show higher numbers than we do, as long as they exist. It is just like the fabled, "Linux only has 2% marketshare" because they can't track all the downloads. I think we should ignore reports like this and focus on getting the word out as a whole. The more users we have the more organic our growth. In the end, it will all work out. Let's focus on the project shall we? Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering -- Sent via pgsql-advocacy mailing list (pgsql-advocacy@...) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-advocacy |
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Re: Forrester: Ingres and MySQL Lead Open Source DatabasesOn Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 02:03:01PM +0100, Greg Stark wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Rob Napier<rob@...> wrote: > > No. Firstly, I have been a customer of theirs, so it is not spam. > > > > Secondly, they are a PR distribution house. They maintain a > > database of contacts for journalists. This is the bread and butter > > of PR consultants. The ad is simply claiming to offer more > > targeted mail outs to avoid being seen as a spammer. > > Well I don't think we should be spamming no matter how targeted and > no regardless of how a PR person thinks it should be seen. I agree. Spamming is right out. > > And at the risk of suggesting that your response confirms my > > point, PR is not a simple process. It needs to be done by people > > who really understand the complexities of getting quality stories > > placed. > > I still don't see how getting stories "placed" leads to good > software. I would rather believe that good software will lead to > stories than the other way around. What you'd like to believe is not at issue here. How people actually behave is, and the scientific evidence to date simply does not support your "supply the facts and rational people will simply draw the right conclusion" model. That idea was proposed back in the 17th century, and it turned out to be wrong, just as decisively as Phlogiston thermodynamics <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlogiston_theory> turned out to be. See George Lakoff's work on framing, etc. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <david@...> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter@... Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-advocacy mailing list (pgsql-advocacy@...) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-advocacy |
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Re: Forrester: Ingres and MySQL Lead Open Source DatabasesOn Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 8:17 PM, David Fetter<david@...> wrote:
> See George Lakoff's work on framing, etc. I prefer John Badham's work. The only winning move is not to play. -- greg http://mit.edu/~gsstark/resume.pdf -- Sent via pgsql-advocacy mailing list (pgsql-advocacy@...) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-advocacy |
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Re: Forrester: Ingres and MySQL Lead Open Source DatabasesOn 8/20/09, Greg Stark <gsstark@...> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 8:17 PM, David Fetter<david@...> wrote: > >> See George Lakoff's work on framing, etc. > > I prefer John Badham's work. The only winning move is not to play. That quote just isn't the same without the dodgy voice synth. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-advocacy mailing list (pgsql-advocacy@...) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-advocacy |
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Re: Forrester: Ingres and MySQL Lead Open Source DatabasesOn Aug 20, 2009, at 2:17 PM, David Fetter wrote:
> What you'd like to believe is not at issue here. How people actually > behave is, and the scientific evidence to date simply does not support > your "supply the facts and rational people will simply draw the right > conclusion" model. Bingo. Getting people to actually try Postgres out or even better actively promote it; that's what advocacy is about. And part of advocacy *is* PR. Part is Marketing. Part is also making sure we have a contact for the press to contact (as someone mentioned). While some of that can certainly be done on an ad-hoc basis, other parts can't (or would be extremely hard to find enough volunteer effort for). Hence the idea of putting money behind this. As for who the person would report to, presumably it'd be the foundation providing the money. However, I also don't think the person doing this has to be an outsider. BTW, for those saying let's focus on the software... this is the *advocacy* list. You're probably looking for -hackers. :P And keep in mind that advocacy builds community, which builds better software. -- Decibel!, aka Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect decibel@... Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 -- Sent via pgsql-advocacy mailing list (pgsql-advocacy@...) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-advocacy |
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Re: Forrester: Ingres and MySQL Lead Open Source DatabasesOn Thu, 2009-08-20 at 22:19 -0500, decibel wrote:
> BTW, for those saying let's focus on the software... this is the > *advocacy* list. You're probably looking for -hackers. :P And keep in > mind that advocacy builds community, which builds better software. I do not think we should stop advocating. I think we should be doing so smartly. Dealing with Forester or any of the other shills is a waste of energy. Let EDB deal with that. We as a community should be focusing on recruiting -hackers and people who are going to use the database. Django developers, Rails developers, PostGIS etc... We don't have to (nor should we want to) give donkey spit about business uptick. The oustide developers and companies surrounding us will take care of that. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering -- Sent via pgsql-advocacy mailing list (pgsql-advocacy@...) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-advocacy |
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Re: Forrester: Ingres and MySQL Lead Open Source Databasesjd@... ("Joshua D. Drake") writes:
> On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 22:19 -0500, decibel wrote: >> BTW, for those saying let's focus on the software... this is the >> *advocacy* list. You're probably looking for -hackers. :P And keep in >> mind that advocacy builds community, which builds better software. > > I do not think we should stop advocating. I think we should be doing so > smartly. Dealing with Forester or any of the other shills is a waste of > energy. Let EDB deal with that. Not to be hard on EDB, but I'm not certain that the kind of work that EDB's marketing-related folk would do dealing with Forestor et al would necessarily be of as much use to "PostgreSQL as community" as it would be to "EDB as company." > We as a community should be focusing on recruiting -hackers and people > who are going to use the database. Django developers, Rails developers, > PostGIS etc... We don't have to (nor should we want to) give donkey spit > about business uptick. The oustide developers and companies surrounding > us will take care of that. I don't think I have any competence to offer in the marketing area, but that's not quite the same thing as thinking that our interest ought to be solely at the "not give a donkey spit" level. In the interests of keeping things entertaining, here's the funniest stuff I saw today... One of these posts refers to someone associated with One Of Those Other Products as an "imperious twit," so obviously has the entertainment attendant from watching insulting+sarcastic wit at work :-) http://omnis-dev.com/pipermail/omnisdev-en/2009-February/005164.html http://omnis-dev.com/pipermail/omnisdev-en/2009-February/005142.html -- (format nil "~S@~S" "cbbrowne" "ca.afilias.info") Christopher Browne "Bother," said Pooh, "Eeyore, ready two photon torpedoes and lock phasers on the Heffalump, Piglet, meet me in transporter room three" -- Sent via pgsql-advocacy mailing list (pgsql-advocacy@...) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-advocacy |
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Re: Forrester: Ingres and MySQL Lead Open Source DatabasesOn Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Joshua D. Drake<jd@...> wrote:
> I do not think we should stop advocating. I think we should be doing so > smartly. Dealing with Forester or any of the other shills is a waste of > energy. Let EDB deal with that. > > We as a community should be focusing on recruiting -hackers and people > who are going to use the database. Django developers, Rails developers, > PostGIS etc... We don't have to (nor should we want to) give donkey spit > about business uptick. The oustide developers and companies surrounding > us will take care of that. Uhm, yeah. What he said. Who would have thought it would be JD who would bring this conversation to a practical and productive place? -- greg http://mit.edu/~gsstark/resume.pdf -- Sent via pgsql-advocacy mailing list (pgsql-advocacy@...) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-advocacy |
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