Re: PostgreSQL Website : advocacy.postgresql.org

Ian Harding wrote:
>
> I like it too, only one thing
>
> s/proprietory/proprietary/

Thanks Ian. Just fixed that.

:)

Had spellchecked it wrongly.

:-/

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

> Ian
>
> >>> Gerhard Häring <gerhard(dot)haering(at)gmx(dot)de> 10/01/02 06:52PM >>>
> * Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org> [2002-10-02 10:34 +1000]:
> > Over the last few weeks we've put together a new "Advocacy and
> > Marketing" website for PostgreSQL:
> >
> > http://advocacy.postgresql.org
>
> Cool :-)
>
> A few remarks:
>
> * [http://advocacy.postgresql.org/advantages/]
> """
> ...
> A point list for some technical features that PostgreSQL offers:
> ...
> * Replication (available commercially) allowing the duplication of
> the database on multiple machines
> """
>
> IIRC there is now a replication solution in contrib/ I've never used
> it though. So you can perhaps cut the "available commercially" There
> might be other commercial offerings I know nothing about.
>
> * "PostgreSQL : The worlds most advanced Open Source database"
> This probably isn't entirely true any more, considering the
> availability of SAP DB. I personally still stick with PostgreSQL,
> however, as I like it and it seems to have much momentum.
>
> * Allows you to win Bullshit-Bingo in 10 seconds. But that's by design
> ;-)
>
> * I don't like serif-fonts like "Times New Roman" on web pages. What
> about using a font declaration like (from my homepage):
>
> body { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
> background-color: #FFFFEE}
>
> throughout the site?
>
> -- Gerhard
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