Re: Release, 3rd draft

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Release, 3rd draft
Date: 2005-10-04 18:45:59
Message-ID: 20051004154418.I1477@ganymede.hub.org
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On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

>
>>
>> Didn't someone mention something like 2 000 000 beta downloads for 5.0?
>> If so, that an avg of 153k per beta ... with that many testers, is their
>> code *that* bad that they can't find all the bugs quicker then that?
>
> I don't think we should compare ourselves to the MySQL metric. It
> doesn't do us any good. The reality is, MySQL is more popular. There
> isn't any arguing that.
>
> Just because it is more popular doesn't make it better and if we try to
> compete on their metrics we are going to loose.

Sorry, hadn't worded my response to Josh particularly well ... I wasn't
suggesting that we should be doing such a comparison, *especially* not in
our press release :)

Was just trying to point out that # of beta downloads, or testers, really
doesn't mean anything, especially if there are so many bugs that it takes
>1year to get a product released ...

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