Re: EDB taking over?

Dave Page wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Andreas Pflug<pgadmin@pse-consulting.de> wrote:
>
>
> EDB *is* the company behind those installers. We have a number of
> people working on them, between two and three working full time in the
> lead up to 8.4 on testing and development.
>

EDB appears as company behind the whole package, not just the installer.
Also please note that this message was primarily addressed to non-EDB
contributors, to check if they might feel the same.

> The splash screen shown by the installer at startup is based on the
> blue gradient website banner, containing the elephant, and 'world's
> most advanced open source database' tagline, with no EDB logo or text
> etc. at all.
>
Admittedly, but quite tiny, and fading fast. I recognized what can be
read there, but first-time users probably won't.

>
>> I've seen some EDB impact on pgadmin's design principles a while ago;
>> pgadmin could be considered as the face of pgsql (since most win32
>> first-time users probably will have the first contact to pgsql via
>> pgadmin), so while this message's subject is certainly an exaggeration,
>> I see tendencies for EnterpriseDB to use pgsql infrastructure as
>> marketing vehicle more and more.
>>
>
> You wrote the original EDB support in pgAdmin, so I'm not sure you can
> complain too hard about that :-p. I will note that in 1.10, pgAdmin
> has enhanced support for Greenplum, and unless you're running either
> Postgres Plus AS or Greenplum database (where the database specific
> features will become visible), pretty much wherever you see EDB in
> pgAdmin, you will also see Greenplum.
>

I've mentioned *design principles*, not systems or specific features
supported (actually, the opposite: std features suppressed). I've
noticed a shift that reminded me of the very first EDB pgadmin
derivative. However, I wasn't going to discuss pgadmin.

Regards,
Andreas