Hell-o
Selena Deckelmann escribió:
> Hi!
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> Josh Berkus wrote:
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>> EnterpriseDB would like to do a survey of PostgreSQL users, at least the
>> ones they can reach through postgresql.org. The results of the survey,
>> anonymized, will be published under an OSS license for our use.
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> That's really cool!
Considering the fact that it would allow us (the Pg Community) to give a
nice survey (i dont know of any yet.. besides the pgsql-cert one...)
along with the rest of it (analisys, graphs, and so on... )... and under
an OSS liscence... makes it even anazingly cool...
>> Under these circumstances, is it OK for EnterpriseDB to use
>> pgsql-announce, pgsql-general and/or postgresql.org News to advertise
>> the survey and solicit users for it? My personal thought is "yes". Yours?
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> It's fine until they start using their product names in the survey. At
> that point, it's not much better than a push-poll advertising technique.
> If those questions which contain specific commercial
> product/branding names were removed, I think the survey would be fine.
I would suggest "Would you consider using a commercial standar/advanced
server (based on PostgreSQL)... i guess it would be usefull for both...
EnterpriseDB and the community...
> My other question is how the survey is presented - is it being labeled
> as a community produced survey? Or marketing research for Enterprise DB?
I have the same question...
> -selena
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