| From: | Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: EDB taking over? |
| Date: | 2009-07-08 16:11:01 |
| Message-ID: | 4A54C515.7060108@pse-consulting.de |
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Andreas Pflug wrote:
>
>
>> But there's also the aspect that the postgres download page for Windows,
>> Linux and MacOSX will redirect to an EDB page, which really was the
>> first thing that irritated me (forgot to mention). Why is that so, why
>> not a postgres page? Do we want/need EDB to officially host postgres
>> stuff, esp with PostgreSQL listed as one of EDB's featured products?
>>
>
> Right. We have a working mirror system. Why aren't the one-click
> packages hosted there?
>
From an EDB point of view, the answer is simple: it generates a lot of
traffic on a page advertising their products. Imagine you'd have to buy
this traffic with adwords...
Regards,
Andreas
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