Re: Thoughs after discussions at OSCON
От | Chris Browne |
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Тема | Re: Thoughs after discussions at OSCON |
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Msg-id | 60ek8vum8r.fsf@dba2.int.libertyrms.com обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Thoughs after discussions at OSCON (Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>) |
Список | pgsql-advocacy |
chris@metatrontech.com (Chris Travers) writes: > Chris Browne wrote: >>ajs@crankycanuck.ca (Andrew Sullivan) writes: >>>On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 09:49:28AM -0400, Rick Morris wrote: >>>> - Thus, taking the above under advisement, it would seem best not >>>> to fight MySQL on their ground, nor to spend much time on feature >>>> distinction, but to forge more serious relationships with >>>> organizations who have serious needs. >>>> >>>I think this is a capital idea. It seems this is a place to focus. >> >>Absolutely. >> >>The same would be true of "fighting Oracle on their ground." >> >>One thought suggested by someone outside of "the community" is that >>one of the things that the various "more popular" systems have gotten >>'right' is the notion of having a "Foo Press" that is responsible for >>deploying books about their systems. >> >>This is true for various values of "Foo" including the members of the >>set {"Microsoft", "Oracle", "MySQL"}. >> >>Contrast with some systems that people hardly ever hear of... >> - There is exactly ONE book available on MaxDB, by No Starch Press >> - There is exactly ONE book available on SQLite, by New Riders >> - APress has ONE book on Firebird... >> - It is not comforting that O'Reilly only has one PostgreSQL book :-( >> >>One "capital idea" might well be to establish a "PostgreSQL Press," >>whether in cooperation with an existing publisher or otherwise. The >>timing of this would be pretty critical; we're likely at a fairly >>critical point in time for it now, for it to happen or not. > Is there any reason why this could not be a function of the advocacy > group? The revenue generated would thereby be able to go back > directly into the advocacy project :-) I am thinking of publishing > libre documentation for a price, advertising it, and using the > revenue to further promote PostgreSQL..... Yes, people are thinking about this, although possibly not yet at the "Our Own Press" level. The thing that I would see being particularly valuable about "OOP" is that it would provide a vehicle to enable deploying "dead tree" editions of the 'official PostgreSQL documentation set,' which would provide a way to turn THAT into one of the 'comprehensive guides' that would suddenly come to "exist" from a publishing perspective. > I thought about getting into this sort of market but it seems a bit > of trouble for me at the moment and well outside my core business > focus. That's OK; there are a lot of people out there with a number of distinct foci, so others of us can worry about this particular one :-). -- (format nil "~S@~S" "cbbrowne" "cbbrowne.com") http://cbbrowne.com/info/x.html The IQ of the group is the lowest IQ of a member of the group divided by the number of people in the group.
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