Re: Time to start the PR machine - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Time to start the PR machine
Date
Msg-id 200508301350.47120.josh@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: Time to start the PR machine  ("Lance Obermeyer" <LObermey@pervasive.com>)
Responses Re: Time to start the PR machine  (Robert Bernier <robert.bernier5@sympatico.ca>)
Re: Time to start the PR machine  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>)
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Lance,

> Not just a raw number, but a comparison to 7.x numbers (even if
> estimated).
>
> "PostgreSQL 8.0 enjoys growing user interest, generating over 1 million
> downloads in 6 months.  This compares with 300,000 over the first six
> months of the prior release, demonstrating the project's acceleration in
> the minds of database users."

Unfortunately, we don't have anything approaching a good estimate of 7.4
downloads.   :-(  Bascially, we have bittorrent numbers, and numbers from
the main FTP server -- and those only for the month of release.

--
--Josh

Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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