Re: Press release, hopefully final draft this time

From: "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
To: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Press release, hopefully final draft this time
Date: 2004-09-28 11:20:11
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We are getting very close...

> as well as hundreds of individual developers contributed

Comma after "developers"

> to add more major features to 8.0 than have been seen in any previous
> version. These features include:

Could be shortened to "version, including:" if we need room.

> proprietary database software for independent software vendors

Those "software"s are too close together: consider listing one of
the other two of the three (corporate, individual) first.

> Through automatically and continously archived transaction logs,
> this feature allows full data restore

A little awkward to read: it's a lot of big words before the
subject shows up.

> placement of large tables and indexes on their own individual disks
> or arrays,

Well, it allows placement on *different* disks, not necessarily their
own individual ones.

> and PL/Perl, and the Npgsql and

Should be "PL/Perl, while the" or some other conjunction.

> support our many new Windows users.

This is the only time we slip out of third-person, so lose the "our"

> transactions, stored procedures, triggers, and subqueries

Actually, per the recent discussion on hackers, we don't have stored
procedures yet. :)

> PostgreSQL is distributed under a BSD license, which allows fee-free
> use and distribution, for both commercial and non-commercial applications.

The "fee-free" is an odd phrase.

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Greg Sabino Mullane greg(at)turnstep(dot)com
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