Thread: No awards?
Hi all, Our Awards page is a mite depressing currently: http://www.postgresql.org/about/awards/ as it gives the impression that the project has stagnated, since we have no awards listed for the past 4+ years. For a comparison, here is MySQL's equivalent page: http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/awards/ I tried looking around for any awards we might have won in the past few years, and came up largely empty-handed. I did notice we were recently in the "Bossie Awards": http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/65089/bossie-awards-2012-the-best-open-source-databases-202354#slide4 perhaps that could suffice for our page.. or does anyone know of other awards we could claim since 2008? Josh
Josh If you want to win awards you need to dedicate someone to chasing them. It is almost a full-time job! Rob Napier On 12/10/2012, at 5:55 AM, Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Our Awards page is a mite depressing currently: > http://www.postgresql.org/about/awards/ > > as it gives the impression that the project has stagnated, since we > have no awards listed for the past 4+ years. For a comparison, here is > MySQL's equivalent page: > http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/awards/ > > I tried looking around for any awards we might have won in the past > few years, and came up largely empty-handed. I did notice we were > recently in the "Bossie Awards": > http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/65089/bossie-awards-2012-the-best-open-source-databases-202354#slide4 > > perhaps that could suffice for our page.. or does anyone know of other > awards we could claim since 2008? > > Josh > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-advocacy mailing list (pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-advocacy >
[Sorry for the delay.. somehow this message just came through for me] On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Rob Napier <rob@doitonce.net.au> wrote: > If you want to win awards you need to dedicate someone to chasing them. That's part of it, I'm sure. Unfortunately, a lot of the awards MySQL brags about are "reader's choice awards", e.g. from LinuxQuestions.org or Linux Journal. And it seems like the trend has been to delegate such decision making to the users -- LinuxJournal used to have an "Editor's Choice Awards" which Postgres won back in 2006, but sadly it seems this was discontinued in favor of the Reader's Choice Awards the year after (?). And since there are more users on MySQL, they win handily there. Josh
> That's part of it, I'm sure. Unfortunately, a lot of the awards MySQL > brags about are "reader's choice awards", e.g. from LinuxQuestions.org > or Linux Journal. And it seems like the trend has been to delegate > such decision making to the users -- LinuxJournal used to have an > "Editor's Choice Awards" which Postgres won back in 2006, but sadly it > seems this was discontinued in favor of the Reader's Choice Awards the > year after (?). And since there are more users on MySQL, they win > handily there. It's actually not a matter of "more users". These are popularity contests, and the thing which usually wins is the one where someone organizes a campaign to get reader votes in. Back in 2004 FirebirdDB swept readers/users choice awards on several publications/sites through a really determined get-out-the-vote campaign. Despite never having more than 5% of the market. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com