On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 02:05:40PM -0800, Joshua Drake wrote:
> >>>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.
>
> Agreed. I also think something like this would work much better
> (than the original):
>
> EnterpriseDB, the leading enterprise Postgres database company,
> celebrates the community release of PostgreSQL 9.5. The worlds most
> advanced Open Source database
>
> What rubbed me wrong is it "felt" like postgres was an afterthought
> in the original instead of the point.
>
> Shrug. Take it, toss it, use it. I hope the feedback was useful.
Yes, I think this is text we can use next time.
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