Re: Time to work on Press Release 8.0

Josh Berkus wrote:

>Marc,
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>>But this comes back to promoting some projects as being more important
>>then others, bestoying(sp?) a pseudo-official status on them ...
>>pginstaller, IMHO, makes sense since its pretty much a requirement for
>>anyone wishing to use Pg 8.0.0 on Windows ...
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>Yep.   That's the way the mainstream press works; they're not interested in
>technical merit of individual projects, they are interested in what's
>currently buzzword-compliant.   Replication is sexy, HA is sexy, PITR is
>sexy, high performance is sexy, enterprise Java is sexy.   A lot of other
>features and add-ons which are very valuable to the community are not
>interesting to the general press.  For the Press Release, which is designed
>to go to reporters, we need to pack it densly with stuff that's going to
>appeal to them.
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What about some mention like:
This release is bundled with the open source replication solution,
Slony-I.  Other commercial replication solutions are available from
other vendors, such as Command Prompt, Incorporated.

Does this satisfy everyone's needs?

I think that replication should be mentioned in some way as it helps to
tell some people that PostgreSQL is ready for the enterprise.  However,
I do agree that we want to avoid leaving people with the idea that this
is *the* end all and be all for PostgreSQL replication.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers