Re: Download links

Dave Page wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Chander Ganesan <chander@otg-nc.com> wrote:
>   
>> If you click on OSX, the first option is a commercial one.
>> If you click on Linux, the first option is a commercial one (BTW, isn't it
>> better to push the OS supplied pacakged version here?).
>>     
>
> They are not commercial. Postgres Plus is commercial. I package the
> PostgreSQL installers myself, in parallel with the existing Windows
> one, and they are entirely OS. the only difference is that they
> include a small logo stating they were packaged by EnterpriseDB.
>
>   
>> Although, I must say I'm a bit confused.  I could have sworn that on the
>> weekend, when I tried to download the windows version, I got the one-click
>> version with a full page asking for contact details, etc.  I could be
>> mistaken there....
>>     
>
> You most certainly are, and I resent the continued assertion that we
> require any registration for these downloads. We don't, and we never
> have. There is no data collection on the download page whatsoever,
> only on pages linked from there. If others feel that we shouldn't link
> to such pages from the download page, I will arrange to have them
> moved elsewhere.
>   
My apologies.  I just went through all the links, and the only page with 
the registration questions is the EDB PostgreSQL Plus installer 
(http://www.enterprisedb.com/products/postgres_plus/download.do), which 
is linked to from the /download page .  While completion of the form 
isn't required (and to be clear, I've never intimated that that info was 
required), it is presented for every download  of PG+ .

That being said, I really don't have any objections to the EDB links for 
the /download pages for the community stuff, though IMHO, the community 
should be distro specific (.rpm, .deb, etc.) packages over the EDB 
supplied one-click packages....

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Chander Ganesan
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