On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Philip Warner wrote:

> At 05:48 PM 4/12/2002 -0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> >Lack of marketing is one of Postgres's major problems.
>
> What are the consequences of the problem?

Well, I'd have to say the major one is a difficult in increasing our user
base, as ppl like MySQL are making sure they are heard whenever they
add something new that we've had for years ...

> If that is what we want, then fine. But I don't want to see any part of
> the development effort distorted or the existing user base
> inconvenienced in an effort to purely gain that market share. I usually
> associate increased marketing with decreased quality, and I think the
> causality works *both* ways.

That is what we want, and the efforts in no way are meant to
undermine/distort anything ... go to archives.postgresql.org and read
through the threads to get a feel ... its not a closed/hidden list by any
means ...



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