Re: Time to work on Press Release 8.0

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Dan Langille wrote:
>
> > In support of Bruce's point, why should we be promoting commercial
> > products?  That should be left to the commercial entities.  Let them
> > spend their resources on that.
>
> IMHO ... I would think that 8.0.0 brought enough to a press release to be
> able to stand on its own ... I question not that we don't promote
> commercial products, but that we are promoting anything but that which we
> are releasing: PostgreSQL RDBMS 8.0.0 ... anything else draws focus *away*
> from that ...
>
> We are *not* releasing Slony ... nor is Slony "the first replication
> solution" ... hell, it isn't even the first *open source* replication
> solution, as I believe that pgReplication has that distinction ...
>
> Replication for PostgreSQL is *not* a new thing ... its not something that
> is first available in 8.0.0, but has been available since 7.2 ... if it
> were something new, fine, touting that we've finally got a replication
> solution is good.  But replication is *old news*, plain and simple ...

But many feel Slony is far better than previous solutions and should be
touted as we have touted other replication solutions in the past.

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