Am Donnerstag, 5. Dezember 2002 05:22 schrieb Lamar Owen: > [cc: list trimmed] > > On Wednesday 04 December 2002 22:52, Philip Warner wrote: > > 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? > > Actually, lack of easy upgrading is one of PostgreSQL's major problems.... > > But lack of focused marketing -- truthful, not, as has been said, like the > 'Database HOWTO' -- is a real problem. It would be nice to increase our > usage. > > > 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. > > ISTM there's a separate, non-code-developer group doing this. It doesn't > seem to take away _any_ developer resources to do an advocacy site. > > However, I seriously question the need in the long term for our sites to be > as fractured as they are. Good grief! We've got advocacy.postgresql.org, > techdocs.postgresql.org, odbc.postgresql.org, gborg.postgresql.org, > developer.postgresql.org, jdbc.postgresql.org, etc. Oh, and we also have > www.postgresql.org on the side? I think not. Oh, and they are fractured > in their styles -- really, guys, we need a unified style here.
Hi, there are lots of sites talking about postgresql. But if someone hear about postgresql he sure tries www.postgresql.org. There he just get a list of mirrors. Not really a good start. But worse: there is no links to gborg, advocacy, techdocs, ... Advocacy should be found at www.postgresql.org and have links to the other pages. I found gborg when reading the mailinglistst. It is something like a insidertip. www.apache.org has a much better structure. You go to www.apache.org and get a welcome-message and links to subprojects as the webserver. Another point that comes to my mind is design. I'm not a designer, but I like the design of www.postgresql.org but not advocacy.postrgresql.org. Tommi -- Dr. Eckhardt + Partner GmbH http://www.epgmbh.de ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
