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From: Dave Page <[email protected]>
To: Chander Ganesan <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Download links
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 22:56:58 +0100
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On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Chander Ganesan <[email protected]> wrote:

> That being said, the issue that I see with EDB hosting is that they now have
> access to information about who is downloading from where, information that
> can be used to determine where they should advertise more heavily, what
> customers might be investigating PostgreSQL, and even geographical areas
> they should focus their marketing and product offerings.

The same information that the hosts of the Yum repo, and other
distributions have. That is why it was decided that EDB would host the
downloads (by PG people, not EDB), despite the fact that I originally
wanted to do it through postgresql.org

> Information that
> isn't available to the PostgreSQL community-at-large, and information that
> would likely be useful for lots of other PG related companies, such as OTG,
> CMD, 2ndQuadrant and others.  Is there even a policy with regard to what
> they do with this information?  Does the community provide this information
> to the public-at-large (I suspect not, for privacy reasons)?

Yes, there is an unwritten policy. It basically says that if you're a
listed corporate sponsor, you can have one-off traffic reports from
time to time, subject to the availability of someone on the webteam to
produce what you need. That will generally give far more info than EDB
gets from installer downloads.

-- 
Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK:   http://www.enterprisedb.com

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