From: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] SAP and MySQL ... [and Benchmark]
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 01:20:40 -0400
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On Friday 13 June 2003 01:08, Tom Lane wrote:
> Actually I think Justin has a point: the core team consists of hackers.
> I believe we do a decent job of leading technical development of
> Postgres, but we're not well-qualified to lead marketing efforts.

> To the
> extent that the hackers community listens to core on technical issues,
> it's because we've achieved respect by hard work.  The core marketing
> team has to step forward and win their credibility the same way.

This hits the nail on the head, something you're usually pretty good at doing, 
Tom. 
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