Re: New Portal in Place, DNS switched ... Banner Adds

I know I participate on this group periodically, but my last position
was CTO at a company, and I currently run my own consulting company. I
feel I have a pretty neutral perspective.

I don't see what the fuss is all about. Banner adds are good, if the
PostgreSQL can get some good RELEVANT adds on its site, (a) shows
viability, and (b) that there is some sort of revenue. Oracle and
Microsoft "rape" their customers, of course they have no 3rd party
banner adds, but make no mistake, there are adds for other products by
the respective companies.

I think that, if you guys want banner adds, it is not a sin, nor is it
unprofessional. My only suggestion is to make sure they are relevant to
the database market. Adds that are relevant to your core competency
enhance your message. Of course, if you post sweepstakes adds, then you
blow it.

Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Neil Conway wrote:
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>>On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 13:26, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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>>>On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, mlw wrote:
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>>>>The PHP site shows adds.
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>>Ok -- but the vast majority (say, 95%) of OSS sites don't show ads.
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>Guess that makes us part of the elite 5% that do, eh? You had me worried
>for awhile there that we were totally exclusive in this *wipe brow*
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