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> SQL Server and Oracle, two of the database products with the largest market share Agree on the first point, but is 'market share' - a metric comparing comme
by boomskats 3y ago
> SQL Server and Oracle, two of the database products with the largest market share
Agree on the first point, but is 'market share' - a metric comparing commercial sales revenue which by definition excludes open source software, really that relevant when critiquing a tagline for a FOSS tool implicitly targeting FOSS databases at a time when FOSS dominates?
If this wasn't an MIT licensed project without a single hint of a commercial offering I'd get it, but come on.
- chrsig 3y agoIt's relevant in that they're prolific databases, so there's a nontrivial chance that a user of one of them will: - stumble across the tool - read that it "works with their database" - hopefully read the actual list of supported databases - become disappointed to learn that it does not in fact work with their database In the case that hopes are not met, the user actually downloads the application and discovers the hard way that it does not work with their database. So market share does seem relevant to the frequency of disappointment though. Is it going to be a frequent enough occurrence to be worth spending any time doing anything about? I don't know.
- tconbeer 3y agoAuthor here. If that disappointment fuels a half day of dev time, anyone who knows Python can just create their own adapter.