| From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces |
| Date: | 2002-12-05 14:34:05 |
| Message-ID: | 20021205103143.C36076-100000@hub.org |
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On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Philip Warner wrote:
> At 05:48 PM 4/12/2002 -0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> >Lack of marketing is one of Postgres's major problems.
>
> What are the consequences of the problem?
Well, I'd have to say the major one is a difficult in increasing our user
base, as ppl like MySQL are making sure they are heard whenever they
add something new that we've had for years ...
> If that is what we want, then fine. But I don't want to see any part of
> the development effort distorted or the existing user base
> inconvenienced in an effort to purely gain that market share. I usually
> associate increased marketing with decreased quality, and I think the
> causality works *both* ways.
That is what we want, and the efforts in no way are meant to
undermine/distort anything ... go to archives.postgresql.org and read
through the threads to get a feel ... its not a closed/hidden list by any
means ...
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