Re: Time to work on Press Release 8.0

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Josh Berkus wrote:
>
>>Well, it's time to start work on the 8.0 press release. Who's
>>interested? Given the amount of coverage we have on the beta already,
>>I think we can do it here, on-list, until we get closer to the
>>release.
>
>
> I have an idea: Try to write the entire press release without using the
> word "enterprise". It might be enlightening. :)

You know what... that is an amazingly valid point. Our market isn't
enterprise. Yes we have enterprise users, but we have far more that
are > 50,000,000 in sales a year.

Perhaps instead we should focus on what 8.0 will allow us to do:

Compete directly with Microsoft on their turf for a lower TCO.
Continue to compete more effectively with Oracle and DB2.

And this is why:

Continued increase in development interfaces:

plPerlNG
plPHP
PlJava (big for Oracle converts)
ECPG (Now even more functional)

Increased reliability:

Replication options:
Slony-I
Mammoth Replicator
DbMirror
(I only mention three because they seem to be the only
ones actually maintained consistly)

PITR

Increased functionality:

Nested transactions

Increased performance:

BGWriter
The new Vacuum
cross-type evaluation '1' == 1

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>

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