At 05:48 PM 4/12/2002 -0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
Lack of marketing is one of Postgres's major problems.
What are the consequences of the problem?
You could even include Microsoft here - they do a lot of database marketing. I am not at all sure the fact that a lot of large companies with dubious products engage in extensive marketing is a reason for *us* to engage in extensive marketing.Particularly when you compare against similar efforts from MySQL, Oracle, etc.
We already have a substantial following, and our clients have direct access to the developers, so any marketing group is pretty irrelevant for existing clients. So the only place I can see for a marketing group is in building our market share by bringing in new clients.
If that is what we want, then fine. But I don't want to see any part of the development effort distorted or the existing user base inconvenienced in an effort to purely gain that market share. I usually associate increased marketing with decreased quality, and I think the causality works *both* ways.
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