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Re: PostgreSQL mission statement?

mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>

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From: mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>
To: Mark kirkwood <markir@slingshot.co.nz>
Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>, Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>, jm.poure@freesurf.fr, David Terrell <dbt@meat.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-05-03T00:41:30Z
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Mark kirkwood wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 04:25, mlw wrote:
> 
> >
> > IMHO, if we can come up with a strong, positive statement, it would help MBA
> > trained CIOs and CTOs choose PostgreSQL. To them, it will show a professional
> > minded development group, it will be recognizable to them.
> 
> I am not so sure about that -
> 
> In my experience the things that those guys use to decide on products
> are :
> 
> 1) reference sites
> 2) official support
> 
> (and they like to pay for a product 'cause they are used to doing
> it...but lets not go there...)
> 
> Personally I find the lack of "business-speak" things (like mission
> statements) refeshing, and I see it as part of the "values" that
> differentiate open source / community based products from commercial
> ones.

A mission statement is like a tie.