On Jan 19, 2008 6:39 PM, Andrew Fountain <<a href="mailto:af@loveintruth.com">af@loveintruth.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
It is the other way around: Cutler supported the *minority* platform because it would keep the code "honest" and not allow them to start relying on Intel-only hacks.</blockquote></div><br>Yes, that is a worthy cause, but there are differences:
<br><br>- This is open source, not a commercial entity with lots of funding. People scratch their OWN itch. Someone else can scratch another itch. If, as a consultant, I deploy Drupal on MySQL exclusively, should I use PostgreSQL in-house just to side with the minority, or focus the limited resources I have on what matters to clients?
<br><br>- There was a third architecture that Windows NT supported: DEC Alpha, strangely enough from the company that Cutler came from where he designed VMS. All of the non-Intel architectures died after a very short life span, never mind the good intentions and idealism.
<br><br>Side point:<br><br>Sun Microsystems invested heavily in PostgreSQL 2 or so years ago, and provided support for it.<br>Now they turned around and bought MySQL for $1B. PostgreSQL is not a company that can be bought, but a community project/product (like Drupal).
<br><br>What will happen next? Time will tell.<br>