Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>

To: "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e@gmx.net>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>

Cc: "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>, "Bruce Momjian" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2002-12-05T01:48:37Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

> > It isn't, but those working on -advocacy were asked to help come up with
a
> > stronger release *announcement* then we've had in the past ...
>
> Consider that a failed experiment.  PostgreSQL is driven by the
> development group and, to some extent, by the existing user base.  The
> last thing we need is a marketing department in that mix.

Ummm...I disagree.  Lack of marketing is one of Postgres's major problems.
Particularly when you compare against similar efforts from MySQL, Oracle,
etc.

Chris