Re: EDB taking over? - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Andreas Pflug
Subject Re: EDB taking over?
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Msg-id 4A54C515.7060108@pse-consulting.de
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In response to Re: EDB taking over?  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Andreas Pflug wrote:
>
>
>> But there's also the aspect that the postgres download page for Windows,
>> Linux and MacOSX will redirect to an EDB page, which really was the
>> first thing that irritated me (forgot to mention). Why is that so, why
>> not a postgres page? Do we want/need  EDB to officially host postgres
>> stuff, esp with PostgreSQL listed as one of EDB's featured products?
>>
>
> Right.  We have a working mirror system.  Why aren't the one-click
> packages hosted there?
>

From an EDB point of view, the answer is simple: it generates a lot of
traffic on a page advertising their products. Imagine you'd have to buy
this traffic with adwords...


Regards,
Andreas

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