From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Umair Shahid <umair(dot)shahid(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: 9.5 Release press coverage |
Date: | 2016-01-13 21:54:23 |
Message-ID: | 20160113215423.GC24366@momjian.us |
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On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 04:49:20PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >>Those last four words, "released by the Postgres community", are
> >>contained in the first complete sentence of the email.
> >That phrase, "released by the Postgres community", is from me. I gave
> >extensive feedback to EDB on every paragraph of the EDB press release,
> >and all my suggestions were accepted.
> >
> >I know that first sentence is odd, and it struck me as odd too when I
> >read it during proofreading. The problem is that 99+% of press releases
> >are by companies about their products, so if you deviate from that at
> >the start, it causes confusion, so I decided the best approach was to
> >say what company was making this press announcement (EDB), but that the
> >code was released by the Postgres community.
>
>
>
> I'm not terribly fussed about it. I would suggest for the future
> that the paragraph might read better as something like:
>
> EnterpriseDB <http://www.enterprisedb.com>® (EDB™), the leading enterprise Postgres database company, welcomes today's general availability release by the PostgreSQL community of PostgreSQL 9.5.
>
> I think that's both less awkward and less misleading.
"Welcomes" is an interesting approach.
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