Re: 9.5 Release press coverage - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: 9.5 Release press coverage
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Msg-id 20160113215423.GC24366@momjian.us
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In response to Re: 9.5 Release press coverage  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: 9.5 Release press coverage  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 04:49:20PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >>Those last four words, "released by the Postgres community", are
> >>contained in the first complete sentence of the email.
> >That phrase, "released by the Postgres community", is from me.  I gave
> >extensive feedback to EDB on every paragraph of the EDB press release,
> >and all my suggestions were accepted.
> >
> >I know that first sentence is odd, and it struck me as odd too when I
> >read it during proofreading.  The problem is that 99+% of press releases
> >are by companies about their products, so if you deviate from that at
> >the start, it causes confusion, so I decided the best approach was to
> >say what company was making this press announcement (EDB), but that the
> >code was released by the Postgres community.
>
>
>
> I'm not terribly fussed about it. I would suggest for the future
> that the paragraph might read better as something like:
>
>    EnterpriseDB <http://www.enterprisedb.com>® (EDB™), the leading enterprise Postgres database company, welcomes
today'sgeneral availability release by the PostgreSQL community of PostgreSQL 9.5. 
>
> I think that's both less awkward and less misleading.

"Welcomes" is an interesting approach.

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