I don't remember Postgres having much traction around 2000 or before. Since there was "always" MySQL available, Postgres wasn't in need of development, for mos

I don't remember Postgres having much traction around 2000 or before. Since there was "always" MySQL available, Postgres wasn't in need of development, for most people MySQL was sufficient. If MySQL had been less open, Postgres might have gotten momentum years earlier to fill that gap on the low web-end. I can imagine Postgres popularity in recent years is because people are replacing Oracle databases with Postgres, they are looking for a way out of that. Or even more, newer companies don't even look at starting with Oracle, but start on Postgres right away.