[perbu]

I don't think that is correct. They never compared themselves to Oracle. I spent some time with Monty parts of the team and also tried working with their business side and they never went after the Oracle workloads. Their huge popularity come with the LAMP stack and their ease of use. They went after this along with data warehousing.

[narag]

Fortunately, it was public. Don't take my word for it.