Re: Time to work on Press Release 8.0

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Dan Langille wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>>
>>>> I am not in favor of mentioning a commercial product in our press
>>>> release, especially when we have an open source alternative.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Because a great deal of the PostgreSQL resources come from commercial
>> entities. Hub, Command Prompt, Red Hat, SRA, Fujitsu, Afillias ---
>>
>> Who do you think is sponsoring a great deal of the "enterprise features"
>> that are coming out, open source to the community?
>
> We can acknowledge support from commercial entities without promoting
> their products.

Agreed ... we should not be promoting *anyone's* products but that which
we are releasing ...

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