Re: Cast your vote ... - Mailing list pgsql-general

15 votes ahead ... just did the registration too ... thanks for those that
poitned out how painless/unobtrusive it is ...



On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Warren Massengill wrote:

> We're now two votes ahead of mySQL ... for the moment.
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> Warren
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> >From: "Charles H. Woloszynski" <chw@clearmetrix.com>
> >To: Peter Childs <blue.dragon@blueyonder.co.uk>
> >CC: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>,pgsql-announce@postgresql.org,
> >pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org,pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> >Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Cast your vote ...
> >Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 07:53:17 -0500
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> >Yeah, the registration was painless and enough options to disable it
> >annoying you. Count my vote cast for PostgreSQL.  I encourage everyone else
> >to do the same.  In the big picture, marketing statements like this survey
> >mean alot more than most technical folks want to acknowledge.
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> >Please vote for your favorite database.
> >
> >Charlie
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> >Peter Childs wrote:
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> >>On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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> >>>Just got this in my mailbox:
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> >>>2002 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards:
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> >>>http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=78a8c06fbc1dcecd52597decd6c56ad8&threadid=39870
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> >>>And we are way behind MySQL (like, d'ah!):
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> >>>http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/poll.php?s=78a8c06fbc1dcecd52597decd6c56ad8&action=showresults&pollid=168
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> >>>The problem, of course, is that you have to be a registered member to
> >>>vote, so its not an 'open poll' ...
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> >>    Open Poll? Its free to register, so really its to try and stop people
> >>voting twice. They don't even want that much data just your E-Mail
> >>address. (The rest is optional)
> >>    The problem with Web Polls is that people can always vote more than once
> >>making any result totally meaning less what ever you do. Ensuring an
> >>election is anoumous, free and fare is VERY difficult.
> >>
> >>Peter Childs
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> >--
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> >Charles H. Woloszynski
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