Re: IMPORTANT: A temporary list for Strategic

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: A temporary list for Strategic
Date: 2004-01-09 21:39:03
Message-ID: 200401092239.03851.peter_e@gmx.net
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> 1. Yet none of you are marketers. You are developers.

Why do you say that? I think everyone on this list is interested in
marketing (or they would not be here), and all the people involved in
this thread have already done a fair share of work for that.

> Remember all those recent threads about MySQL and their marketing
> prowess... this is what we are
> talking about. MySQL marketing doesn't happen on the frito-lay crumbs
> of a developers desk. It happens
> in rooms with whiteboards, ties, coffee, cell phone and doughnuts.

The MySQL development process is also different from ours, so why can't
the marketing process be different as well?

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