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Re: PostgreSQL mission statement?

Mark Kirkwood <markir@slingshot.co.nz>

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From: Mark kirkwood <markir@slingshot.co.nz>
To: mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>
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: 2002-05-02T22:09:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
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. 

just my NZ4c (=US2c)

Mark