Robert Treat wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Dec 2002 22:54:37 -0500, 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?
> >
>
> One consequence that probably hits home for everyone here is it makes it
> extremely hard to make a living working with postgresql. A quick search on
> monster.com gives me 17 jobs mentioning postgresql, with none listed in the
> last week. A search on mysql gives me 100 jobs, with 3 filed just today.
> I won't even go into the numbers for Oracle, DB2, and M$. We all have to
> pay the bills and I think we'd like to do it working with postgresql.
One other thing marketing does is attracting developers, including
_paid_ developers, to work on PostgreSQL. Fortunately PostgreSQL is a
big hit in Japan, so SRA can pay me to work on PostgreSQL. If we can
increase PostgreSQL's popularity, we will get more people working to
improve PostgreSQL, both paid and volunteers.
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