Mark kirkwood wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 04:25, mlw wrote: > > > > > IMHO, if we can come up with a strong, positive statement, it would help MBA > > trained CIOs and CTOs choose PostgreSQL. To them, it will show a professional > > minded development group, it will be recognizable to them. > > I am not so sure about that - > > In my experience the things that those guys use to decide on products > are : > > 1) reference sites > 2) official support > > (and they like to pay for a product 'cause they are used to doing > it...but lets not go there...) > > Personally I find the lack of "business-speak" things (like mission > statements) refeshing, and I see it as part of the "values" that > differentiate open source / community based products from commercial > ones.
A mission statement is like a tie. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
