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From: Chander Ganesan <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Sullivan <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Download links
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:17:16 -0400
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Chander Ganesan <[email protected]> writes:
>   
>> Actually, I'm referring to the fact that the "de facto" method of 
>> downloading PostgreSQL now funnels folks over the EDB,
>>     
>
> How do you come to that conclusion?  I go to
> http://www.postgresql.org/download/
> and what I see is a pile of links to community-supplied binaries,
> and a link to EDB's version, and a link to BitNami's version.
> (I'm sure if you asked politely there could be a link to OTG's
> version as well.)  Where are we pushing EDB's version over the
> community builds?
>   
If you click on OSX, the first option is a commercial one.
If you click on Linux, the first option is a commercial one (BTW, isn't 
it better to push the OS supplied pacakged version here?).

Although, I must say I'm a bit confused.  I could have sworn that on the 
weekend, when I tried to download the windows version, I got the 
one-click version with a full page asking for contact details, etc.  I 
could be mistaken there....

My concern isn't about hosting the downloads, its more about the 
collection of information that would provide a significant competitive 
or marketing advantage to the company doing the hosting.  In this case, 
I'm concerned about the collection of information...  In fact, the only 
place where you download and such information is requested is the EDB 
site...

-- 
Chander Ganesan
Open Technology Group, Inc.
One Copley Parkway, Suite 210
Morrisville, NC  27560
919-463-0999/877-258-8987
http://www.otg-nc.com

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