Received: from localhost (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2E5F9FC050 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:45:48 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 35412-03 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:45:42 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from main2.mycybernet.net (main2.mycybernet.net [209.222.63.140]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01CE19FC048 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:45:44 -0300 (ADT) Received: from 227-54-222-209.mycybernet.net ([209.222.54.227] helo=phlogiston.dydns.org) by main2.mycybernet.net with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I167X-0003Wo-IA for pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:45:39 -0400 Received: by phlogiston.dydns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 01C543F9E; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:45:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:45:33 -0400 From: Andrew Sullivan To: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org Subject: Re: On managerial choosing (was: Postgres VS Oracle) Message-ID: <20070620194533.GD743@phlogiston.dyndns.org> References: <603b0odl5i.fsf@dba2.int.libertyrms.com> <20070620144810.GO31426@phlogiston.dyndns.org> <200706201958.03510.ah@hatzis.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200706201958.03510.ah@hatzis.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200706/237 X-Sequence-Number: 11286 On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 07:57:58PM +0200, Anastasios Hatzis wrote: > focussed and maybe not enthusiastic about too much CIO/CTO flavored > communication). Actually this kind of communication looks to me like to be > perfectly done by commercial PG vendors? Well, sure, but I sort of assume that the -advocacy list has subscribed to it only people who are interested in promoting PostgreSQL. So I figure that this group probably needs to think about the audiences for its output; and C*O people make up one of them. A -- Andrew Sullivan | ajs@crankycanuck.ca The fact that technology doesn't work is no bar to success in the marketplace. --Philip Greenspun