Re: Press Release? Hello?

From: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Press Release? Hello?
Date: 2002-11-13 19:22:45
Message-ID: 1037215365.1992.15.camel@camel
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Hmm... maybe this goes back to the whole target audience thing, but I
think we'd get a much bigger win by dropping names of folks using
postgresql than we do by highlighting the free (as in beer) aspect of
it. (disclaimer - I wrote the second ending)

Robert Treat

On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 13:34, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
> Oh great ... I like them both? :(
>
> A mix-n-match of the two (purely cut-n-paste, needs to be cleaned), but:
>
> ====================
> Following more than 16 years of development by hundreds of the world's
> most generous and brilliant minds from the open source community,
> PostgreSQL continues to make the decision between free software and
> commercial databases "a simple choice between open source or an open
> wallet."
>
> With it's long time support of an enterprise level feature set including
> transactions, stored procedures, triggers, and subqueries PostgreSQL is
> being used by many of todays most demanding businesses.
>
> Many companies and agencies can no longer afford the high costs and
> constantly changing terms of licensed commercial software - making
> PostgreSQL one of the most highly sought after free technologies in the
> market today. With the release of v7.3 the decision to choose PostgreSQL
> is now even easier.
> ====================
>
> Maybe with a pointer to advocacy for the case studies provided by some of
> hte big-un's?
>
>

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