Re: News links, post 'em here - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

On 12/09/2013 18:46, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
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> On 09/12/2013 09:27 AM, damien clochard wrote:
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>> 3/ PostgreSQL companies are not marketing bullies :) We all know the
>> difference between advertising corporate services and promoting the
>> project. I'm not saying there's never been any problem but I believe it
>> was always unintentional. And it can always be discussed on
>> pgsql-advocacy or pgsql-www
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> Just curious but, how do you think the community would react if EDB or
> CMD was quoted the way Dalibo was quoted? Consider the following:
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> From:
> http://www.journaldunet.com/developpeur/outils/postgresql-9-3-big-data-0913.shtml
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> " PostgreSQL  9.3 is placed under the sign of interoperability with
> other storage engines, whether others such as Oracle RDBMS or NoSQL
> databases, "says Dalibo."
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> " PostgreSQL  9.3 is placed under the sign of interoperability with
> other storage engines, whether others such as Oracle RDBMS or NoSQL
> databases, "says Command Prompt. "
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> From:
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http://www.programmez.com/actualites.php?titre_actu=Sortie-de-PostgreSQL-93--Interoperabilite-NoSQL-et-vues-materialisees-!&id_actu=13825
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> According to Jean-Paul Argudo, founder of the site  www.postgresql.fr
> Dalibo specialist and director of company in France PostgreSQL "
> PostgreSQL is more than ever the alternative # 1 in Oracle. New in
> version 9.3 are the perfect illustration including materialized views,
> indexing regular expression and management of federated data. Besides
> the major accounts are not wrong and turn increasingly to PostgreSQL to
> review their licensing policies while maintaining an innovative and
> robust RDBMS. "

To be transparent on this, I work for Dalibo. But I think the rest of
this tread is a bid misguided by this second translation.

I don't really know where this translation comes from (looks like an
automated translation to me), but it is inacurate:

Selon Jean-Paul Argudo, fondateur du site www.postgresql.fr et directeur
de DALIBO société spécialiste de PostgreSQL en France, « PostgreSQL est
plus que jamais l'alternative n°1 à Oracle...

Should be translated as:

According to Jean-Paul Argudo, founder of the site www.postgresql.fr and
directory of Dalibo, a company specialized on PostgreSQL in France,
"PostgreSQL is more than ever the #1 alternative to Oracle...


Nowhere it is said that Dalibo is the French branch of PostgreSQL or
anything like that. Only that Dalibo is specialized on PostgreSQL, and
is french. I hope this helps clarifying this.

The rest of the points discussed are of course valid ...