On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 07:52:33AM -0400, Dave Page wrote:
> Even if you put that aside though, there are nearly 300
> support/services companies in our directory, most of whom are likely
> to be unknown to the majority of us. Obviously there's no way we would
> include all of them on the -packagers list, so how do we decide
> fairly?
Yep, that's the tricky point. And we may run into the same problem DBaaS when
more companies offer a hosted PostgreSQL version.
> > So then it's a matter of users? What is the number of user one has to have to
> > qualify? How do we count users? Installations, db admins, real database users
> > as in customers?
>
> Yes, that is what needs debate. I don't know how we can write down
> specific criteria. I do know that when we tried to do something
> similar to define who goes on the sponsors page, we got nowhere at all
> because it's *really* hard to write such rules, without almost
> immediately finding some exception that we'd have to make.
True.
Michael
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