On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Keith C. Perry wrote:
> > That situtation is a little different though since Linux comes is
> > various distributions. Eventually people with get that Linux = Red
> > Hat is NOT true. Heck, IBM is probably the best at promoting Linux
> > these days in the mainstream. With PostgreSQL, we're just one "disto"
> > so once the ball really gets rolling, its going to pick up speed
> > quickly.
>
> Well, we're moving more into a direction where PostgreSQL is just a
> "kernel" and you have to look around and search the other applications
> yourself, such as language bindings, GUI tools, etc. This trend has
> both advantages and disadvantages, but providing comprehensive
> information through any means is becoming more of a challenge.
IMHO, "promoting" software should be a function on the web site, and not
including it as part of the distribution ... is there an open source
distro of something like freshmeat that we could put up (so that we don't
have to 'yet again recreate the wheel')?
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