From: Jean-Michel POURE <jm@poure.com>
Reply-To: jm@poure.com
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] What can we learn from MySQL?
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 22:13:26 +0200
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> My question is, "What can we learn from MySQL?" =A0I don't know there is
> anything, but I think it makes sense to ask the question.

Dear Bruce,

Taking the example of pgAdmin III, which reached nearly one million hits in=
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December (http://www.pgadmin.org/stats/webalizer), nothing seems impossible=
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for PostgreSQL.

Why not create an all-in-one bundle offering PostgreSQL, Apache, Php and=20
PhpPgAdmin for Win32 and ... mass-release it.

There is no need to create a complete installer. There could be a single=20
installer executing other installers (like it is sometimes the case in the=
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Win32 world). So that installers remain different.

A single web page like "http://win.postgresql.org" in 40 languages is enoug=
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to mass-release PostgreSQL.

With an installer and a single web page, PostgreSQL Win32 could quickly rea=
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one million downloads every month.

There is no need to look for complicated strategies. Every month, there can=
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10% more downloads. In the end, people will even forget the name of MySQL.

Cheers,
Jean-Michel
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