Re: 9.5 Release press coverage

On 01/11/2016 04:34 AM, damien@dalibo.info wrote:
> Le 11.01.2016 05:24, Robert Haas a écrit :
>> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
>> wrote:
>>> The rest of us (CMD, 2Q, OmniTI, etc...) are all just service
>>> providers. EDB
>>> is the only "distribution" of PostgreSQL.
>
> I believe we can include Pivotal and CitusData as distributors as well,
> and there's also cloud providers such as Heroku or Redshift, which do
> not distribute code but they have an important role during a release
> announcement (especially if it's a security alert like for 9.2.4 ) and
> they have some PR firepower too

Cloud providers don't count. Those are just service providers.

Citus few people outside this community have heard of (in comparison to
EDB) and Pivotal, outside of Greenplum, I don't even know what they do.
Greenplum is a fork (not saying that is bad just that it is) and not
PostgreSQL.

JD


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