In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, [EMAIL PROTECTED] transmitted: > Is anyone really ready for this sort of commitment?
By that, I presume you mean... "Are people prepared to stop working on the doubtless useful things that they are working on in favor of spending their time instead on this set of marketing-oriented systems integration tasks?" I think the answer to that is likely a pretty clear NO. PostgreSQL runs on numerous systems, and in order to do what you are proposing, it would be necessary to play system favorites. -> Configuration systems are inherently platform-specific. -> PL/Java is well and interesting, but requires a barrel of non-free software, which makes installation and configuration anything but "slick." There is _not_ going to be a "Product Management" group any time soon that will turn around PostgreSQL into being a marketing-driven project. I suggest that you instead find projects that are worth doing in their own right without having to make some mandate for a Grand Political Restructuring. Doing individual things that are worthwhile is, obviously, worthwhile. If some point some people in directions that, after some number of such projects, resemble some Grand Political Restructuring, then you'll have succeeded at the latter. Much as you can't push on a rope (unless it's wet and frozen :-)), and can't herd cats (although EDS did a SuperBowl commercial claiming they could), you can't push for a Grand Political Restructuring. The best you can do is lure people in your directions, one cat at a time... -- (format nil "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "cbbrowne" "cbbrowne.com") http://cbbrowne.com/info/spreadsheets.html "The theoreticians have proven that this is unsolvable, but there's three of us, and we're smart..." -- Arthur Norman ---------------------------(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
