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I’ve been around long enough to see the underdog beat the well funded #1.

Linux beat Windows, PostgreSQL beat MySQL.



I'm not sure either of those examples is true. For servers, Linux won, but that's just a fraction of OS usage. MySQL still has much higher usage rates than Postgres, particularly at massive scale, so calling that "won" is premature at best




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