[dba-Tech] OT, definitely, but priceless

On 2012-11-04 2:11 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> Ahh, yes excellent subject.
>
> Have you ever considered doing a matching book using Postgres? As this
> database seem to be the next step in OS SQL database evolution.
>
> Right now Larry is in the process of throttling the goose to wring out the
> last drop of profit, MySQL adoption has gone totally flat and at least three
> or four forks are now under development, until king Larry sues them to
> oblivion. New developers are looking for the next set of options and
> Postgres is really hot now.
>
> Jim

Hi Jim,

Interesting. Can you perchance point me at some market share numbers?

P.


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> On 2012-11-04 11:31 AM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
>> "Our book" ?
>>
>> Jim
> http://www.artfulsoftware.com/
>
> PB
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 7:45 AM
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>> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] OT, definitely, but priceless
>>
>> On 2012-11-04 8:58 AM, Arthur Fuller wrote:
>>> Recently I came upon the following sentence, which reminded me of why I
>>> dreamed of becoming a writer; but sadly, never achieved such exquisite
>>> sculpture as this:
>>>
>>> The spread of secondary and latterly of tertiary education has created a
>>> large population of people, often with well-developed literary and
>>> scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to
>>> undertake analytical thought.
>>>
>>> -- Peter Medawar
>> Interesting.
>> http://www.online-utility.org/english/readability_test_and_improve.jsp
>> gives that sentence a Fox Index of 27.
>>
>> The Fog Index is said to indicate the number of years of formal
>> education that a person requires in order to easily understand the text
>> on first reading. Many decades ago, a secretary (yep, that long ago) was
>> quietly cursing a paper she was typing into the computer. When she was
>> done, I put it through that year's version of the Fog Index. It said
>> understanding the paper would require 82 years of education.
>>
>> By way of contrast, the first para of our book, which you wrote, gets a
>> Fog Index of 10. Seems you accomplished your goal.
>>
>> PB
>>
>>
>>
>>
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