Re: EnterpriseDB Postgres

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Derek Rodner wrote:
> I am not saying we did not tell the truth and we absolutely did. This is the first distribution for Postgres that is packaged in this fashion with a graphical installer and the like. The title of that press release is accurate.

Derek you are arguing the marketing truth versus the pedantic truth.
This is not an argument you can win :) The problem is simple your
wording "implies" certain things that are certainly not true.

I agree with you that you didn't explicitly state something that is not
true, but your "implication" is something that the community will always
take exception with.

That is the way it works. I would also note that you are arguing a
marketing argument to a bunch of engineers ;) You will not convince them.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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> Derek M. Rodner
> Director, Product Strategy
> EnterpriseDB Corporation
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 9:37 AM
> To: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)orgI
> Cc: Derek Rodner
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] EnterpriseDB Postgres
>
> Am Mittwoch, 8. August 2007 18:11 schrieb Derek Rodner:
>> While the wording of the press release is cause for concern in the
>> community because of "first-ever" and "professional grade", we need to
>> do this for marketing purposes. If we had said "EnterpriseDB releases
>> yet another PostgreSQL distribution" then no one would cover it.
>
> Well, at least you are admitting that you are not telling the truth.
>
> I will suggest, however, that knowingly wrong material should not be posted on
> the postgresql.org web site any longer.
>

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