Re: Some comments on the marketing texts

Hello,

As someone who has to walk both sides of the line... sales/marketing
and geek, I find it best
to keep a moderate sales pitch that revolves around honesty.

Volvo's are boxy (sp?) but there good!

PostgreSQL is arguably the fastest relational database under heavy load.

PostgreSQL is the only widely used ACID compliant database. (followed
up with a link to a reasonable description
about why MySQL is not ACID complian)

PostgreSQL has the most flexible licensing model of all widely
deployed Open Source Databases.

PostgreSQL is the only open source database (this needs to be
verified) that supports required database features
such as SQL Compliance (this would have to be worded a little
differently), User defined functions, Triggers, View etc...

PostgreSQL has the widest range of externernal language support
available of any database (this is marketing fluff but fairly true).
Including:

Java
C#/.Net
C/C++
Perl
PHP
Python
TCL
Ruby

Note that the list is not alphabetical, but actually listed in order
of deployment. If you read the rags (InfoWorld, Enterprise Comuting, SD
Times) that is pretty much the order. Language religion is irrelevant here.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

Christopher Browne wrote:

>Quoth andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info (Andrew Sullivan):
>
>
>>On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 05:59:18PM -0400, Robert Treat wrote:
>>
>>
>>>1) The target audience of the advocacy site is PHB's, not technical
>>>people.
>>>
>>>
>>This, by the way, is Real Important. Some of Peter's complaints
>>('world standard is meaningless because you don't know what the
>>comparison class is') are not things that would sway a PHB at all, in
>>my experience. Indeed, I made _exactly_ that argument about a year
>>and a half ago, and was overruled by a PHB who thought it was good
>>sales copy. (In case one wonders what has happened to the English
>>language.)
>>
>>
>
>Unfortunately, the present mix seems to be compromising the notion of
>being on any sort of "moral high ground," and risks flamage from those
>that _do_ know the degree of meaninglessness of the "marketing copy."
>
>It used to be "fair game" to bash the people at MySQL AB for having
>marketing copy that was misleading and/or dishonest. They have
>cleaned their game up, at least a bit, by taking out the more
>grievious misstatements about PostgreSQL.
>
>I think the material is quite repairable; some changes of wording
>ought to do...
>
>

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