Re: What so special about PostgreSQL and other RDBMS?

On Thu, 20 May 2004,
doug.blot.hutcheson_at_nrm.blot.qld.blot.gov.blot.au wrote:

> There are large companies in our industry who are famous for
> implementing backward-incompatibility in new versions of their
> software. Further, most support is time limited: once the
> software has reached a certain age, the vendor demands that you
> upgrade (at your cost) if you want to continue to receive
> support and bug fixes. Clearly, that makes good commercial
> sense and nobody would dispute their right to drop suport for
> old products, but it does lock customers into an "upgrade or
> else" cost cycle. If a customer decides not to upgrade, the
> vendor has effectively broken the code for the customer as soon
> as the next bug or insecurity is encountered: no support means
> no fix.

How many open-source projects do you know that have developers fixing bugs on earlier major releases of their codebase?

-- 
Galen Boyer