Re: 7.4 Press Release -- Draft #3

On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 12:22, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > > Mentioning support for AMD's Opteron would also be a good bit to have
> > > since that says, "we're a safe database to base your business around
> > > because we move with the times and support cutting edge hardware, even
> > > though the project has been around forever."
> >
> > still thinking on this one... it's not new that we support 64bit
> > hardware.
>
> No, it's not. I point out, though, that MySQL got a significant amount of
> press milage out of their support for AIX last year ... even though we've had
> it for 2 years. Since we *do* have production-tested support for Opteron in
> this release, we need to trumpet it loud and "grab the high ground."
>

Well, that actually was news, since mysql didn't actually support aix
when they made that announcement. they also get mileage from trumpeting
subselects and transactions, should we toss that in as well?

Robert Treat
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