Re: developer.com: PostgreSQL is the "Database of the year"

Robert Treat wrote:
> On Friday 18 January 2008 17:43, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
>> On Jan 18, 2008 5:34 PM, Selena Deckelmann <selenamarie@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Jan 18, 2008 2:23 PM, Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com> wrote:
>>>> PostgreSQL has recently been announced Developer.com's "Database Tool
>>>> or Add-in" Product of the Year for 2008. This follows 5 consecutive
>>>> Editor's Choice Awards for "Best Database" from LinuxJournal.
>>> +1 for directness and +1 for mentioning the earlier awards in the same
>>> breath.
>> +1 for not being too marketroidal
>
> IMHO this is a distraction to the point of the press release, which is to tell
> people we have a new version of the software.  If people really think this is
> an important item, then we should 1) Change the main blurb on the web page,
> 2) Add a news item to the pgsql news list on the main website, 3) Send an
> email to pgsql-announce with mini-press release of the event, and 4) Drop a
> note to our press-friendlies about the occurance, positioned something
> like "on the eve of releasing PostgreSQL 8.3, the database has nabbed yet
> another award" (this could be similar working to the mini-release for
> announce).

FWIW, #2 was already done by Berkus, but nobody had approved it for some
reason. Said nobody includes you, so you should already have known about
that one :P

//Magnus