Re: read this and puke

tony wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 23:12, Patrick Macdonald wrote:
>
> > Yes, Red Hat Database is being marketed (a little
> > lighter than I had hoped) and all RHDB marketing
> > material states that RHDB is powered by PostgreSQL.
>
> Understatement =:-D This was the point I was trying to make. Since the
> launch it has dissapeared from the front page of the site and is not in
> the solutions page.

For the record, this is normal process.  When a product is
launched, it gets front page real estate for a set amount of
time.  That time frame has passed for us, we're now on the
"Products and Services" page.  The "Solutions" page is a
whitepaper/howto information collection.  You will not find
any products marketed there.

> You have to dig around in software to find it. And
> not much has been written by the marketing dept in a while judging by
> the dates...

Not really... all Red Hat distributions/products (Linux, Database,
GNUPro, Stronghold, etc) are listed under "Products and Services"
off the front page.

I agree with your second statement and the RHDB development team
compensates with the sources.redhat.com/rhdb site.  Between
releases, there is very little change to the redhat.com pages.
Again, standard procedure.

Updates to the RHDB product have be ongoing (newer version of
PostgreSQL, newer documentation, etc) and these updates are
propagated to users via Red Hat Network.

> > In fact, we are just finishing development on V2.
> > Snapshots of various tools can be found at
> > http://sources.redhat.com/rhdb
>
> They look great. Would redHat like to contribute icons to the java front
> end we are working on?

Since we have yet to ship our tools, the answer at this time
is probably "not yet".

Cheers,
Patrick