Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] What can we learn from MySQL?
From: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Alexey Borzov <borz_off@cs.msu.su>
Cc: Rod Taylor <pg@rbt.ca>, pgsql-www@postgresql.org
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Date: 23 Apr 2004 15:02:46 -0400
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On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 12:07, Alexey Borzov wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Rod Taylor wrote:
> > My present theory is that most users make the decision regarding ease of
> > use before even installing the software.
> > 
> > If you look at the MySQL website within 1 or 2 clicks, you know that
> > there is a gui for queries, a gui for administration, drivers or
> > interfaces for many programming langauges. They have GIS, Unicode, full
> > text searching, multi-master replication, ANSI compliance, etc.
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > You don't learn anything about the GUIs (any of them) within the first
> > couple of clicks. Since many users (even linux users) associate command
> > lines with difficulty of use, the first impression is that PostgreSQL is
> > difficult to use.
> 
> I think that PostgreSQL's "download" page should point to at least
> * Recommended replication solution (erserver?)
> * Recommended full-text search solution (tsearch?)
> * Recommended GUI / web frontend (PGAdmin / phpPgAdmin)
> * Drivers: ODBC, JDBC, whatever
> * PostGIS
> * Banners to put on the website
> * A description of what to find in the contrib dir
> 
> If someone makes such a page, I'll promptly add it to the 
> "next-generation" site.
> 

Do you think you could mock one up with fake projects and links?  It
would make it easier to wrap our heads around how that would work with
translations and mirroring. 

Robert Treat 
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