Re: Many comments (related to "Are we losing momentum?")

On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 11:51, Dave Page wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rob Butler [mailto:robert.butler5@verizon.net] 
> > Sent: 16 April 2003 16:33
> > To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> > Subject: [HACKERS] Many comments (related to "Are we losing 
> > momentum?") 
> > 
> > 
> > You 
> > want a real shocker...  Visit the gborg homepage (click the 
> > gborg link on the bottom left corner of the postgres site).  
> > Then read the news on the right side of the gborg homepage.  
> > See that url for http://www.greatbridge.org/ in the 
> > GreatBridge.Org Version 2.0.0 Release story from way back in 
> > 2001!  Go ahead, visit that URL.  What's the first thing you 
> > see on that page?  "Purchase IBM DB2 At IBM.com".  Come on!  
> > Not even a mention of Postgres, and this is right on the 
> > gborg homepage!  
> 
> We don't own that site, and we never did. We did manage to inherit the
> projects database through it's key programmer and his goodwill.
> 

Oddly I don't see the link he's referring to, but I've always thought it
unfortunate that the postgresql community didn't hold onto those domain
names. I was just speaking with a tech writer last night who mentioned
how the company that was initially behind postgresql went kaput ("I
think it was called great river or something?") Took me a minute to set
him straight on that.  

Anyways, I've offered to look into setting up gforge services in the
past as it's a mature project with a good development community and the
founder (Tim Perdue) has always been friendly with the PostgreSQL
community. Course I don't see this as an immediate need, but long term I
think it would be a good idea.

> > The firebird, sapdb and mysql sites are 
> > killing postgres here.  The postgres homepage and related 
> > links is the first thing someone new to postgres sees!  There 
> > shouldn't be news on any of the main pages from back in 2001. 
> 
> There isn't. The oldest news is from January 2003.
> 
> Wrt your comments on the style of some of the pages linked off the main
> site (the archives spring to mind), if there are any volunteers to help
> fix that, please raise your hands because my time is limited and I could
> do with some committed help on that sort of thing.
> 

I'm in the process of adding the newsletters to the main page (expect
questions your way later today ;-) but once I am done with that
"cohesiveness" will definitely be on my radar screen. 

Robert Treat