Re: [NOVICE] PostgreSQL Training

From: "Keith C(dot) Perry" <netadmin(at)vcsn(dot)com>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Chris Travers <chris(at)travelamericas(dot)com>, Bret Busby <bret(at)busby(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] PostgreSQL Training
Date: 2003-12-12 15:37:50
Message-ID: 1071243470.3fd9e0ce7cbb5@webmail.vcsn.com
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Quoting "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>:

> On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> > Keith C. Perry wrote:
> > > That situtation is a little different though since Linux comes is
> > > various distributions. Eventually people with get that Linux = Red
> > > Hat is NOT true. Heck, IBM is probably the best at promoting Linux
> > > these days in the mainstream. With PostgreSQL, we're just one "disto"
> > > so once the ball really gets rolling, its going to pick up speed
> > > quickly.
> >
> > Well, we're moving more into a direction where PostgreSQL is just a
> > "kernel" and you have to look around and search the other applications
> > yourself, such as language bindings, GUI tools, etc. This trend has
> > both advantages and disadvantages, but providing comprehensive
> > information through any means is becoming more of a challenge.
>
> IMHO, "promoting" software should be a function on the web site, and not
> including it as part of the distribution ... is there an open source
> distro of something like freshmeat that we could put up (so that we don't
> have to 'yet again recreate the wheel')?
>
> ----
> Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
> Email: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
>

Marc,

Isn't our Gborg loosely equivalent to Freshmeat?

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Keith C. Perry, MS E.E.
Director of Networks & Applications
VCSN, Inc.
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