On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:00:48 -0500 (EST) Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote: > I read the following report from the NetBSD group: > > http://kerneltrap.org/node/4680 > > It has some interesting points. First, they analyze how the fit with > other open source database offerings. Their position is somewhat > similar to ours. > > Their development style is also similar to ours.
Not too surprising since both projects came out of Berkeley. > They complain about release delays and the challenge of organizing > volunteers, just like us. Is there any volunteer organization that's any different? :-) > Second, they have a much more rigid hierarchy structure. There are > good and bad things about that and you can see it in the report. It could be that the people really do make a difference but, as a NetBSD developer, I never really feel that the hierarchy gets in the way of doing things. I think that in any organization the people get stuff done regardless of what structure is in place. It depends more on the people than the structure. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
