| From: | mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com> |
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| To: | Mark kirkwood <markir(at)slingshot(dot)co(dot)nz> |
| Cc: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, Jim Mercer <jim(at)reptiles(dot)org>, jm(dot)poure(at)freesurf(dot)fr, David Terrell <dbt(at)meat(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL mission statement? |
| Date: | 2002-05-03 00:41:30 |
| Message-ID: | 3CD1DCBA.3AA42862@mohawksoft.com |
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Mark kirkwood wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 04:25, mlw wrote:
>
> >
> > IMHO, if we can come up with a strong, positive statement, it would help MBA
> > trained CIOs and CTOs choose PostgreSQL. To them, it will show a professional
> > minded development group, it will be recognizable to them.
>
> I am not so sure about that -
>
> In my experience the things that those guys use to decide on products
> are :
>
> 1) reference sites
> 2) official support
>
> (and they like to pay for a product 'cause they are used to doing
> it...but lets not go there...)
>
> Personally I find the lack of "business-speak" things (like mission
> statements) refeshing, and I see it as part of the "values" that
> differentiate open source / community based products from commercial
> ones.
A mission statement is like a tie.
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