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Re: Why we lost Uber as a user

Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@gmail.com>

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From: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@gmail.com>
To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
Cc: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin@geoff.dj>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-08-03T14:04:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Aug 3, 2016, at 3:29 AM, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> Honestly the take-away I see in the Uber story is that they apparently
>> had nobody on staff that was on -hackers or apparently even -general
>> and tried to go it alone rather than involve experts from outside
>> their company. As a result they misdiagnosed their problems based on
>> prejudices seeing what they expected to see rather than what the real
>> problem was.
>
> +1 very true.
>
> At the same time there are some lessons to be learned. At the
> very least putting in big bold letters where to come for help is
> one.

+1

My initial experience with PostgreSQL would have been entirely
different had I not found the community lists and benefited from
the assistance and collective wisdom found on them.

--
Kevin Grittner
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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