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Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces

Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>

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From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-12-09T22:15:21Z
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On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

> I tend to agree with Peter.  Not that we don't need a marketing
> presence; we do (I think Great Bridge's marketing efforts are sorely
> missed).  But the point he is making is that the pgsql mailing lists go
> to people who are generally unimpressed by marketing fluff.  And they're
> already "sold" on PG anyway.
>
> The right way to handle this next time is to generate a PR-style
> press release to send to outside contacts, but to do our more
> traditional, technically-oriented announcement on the mailing lists.

Agreed ... we tried to do 'two-in-one' on this one and it didn't quite
work out as well as it could have ... next time, we'll go with both
methods ...