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PostgreSQL Gets New Website, 8.0 Release Candidate

Posted by timothy on from the elepantses dept.

gavinroy writes "As can be seen at PostgreSQL, the PostgreSQL www team has released the new version of the site sporting a new clean and more professional look. This is hot on the heels of PostgreSQL 8.0 RC2 which includes numerous bug fixes and is one step closer to production ready PostgreSQL on the Win32 platform." Neil Bahroos points out this ZDNet article on the upcoming 8.0 release.

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  1. Re:Looks a lot like RedHat's site by pr0c · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Redhat is one of their sponsers, maybe one of their contributions is the design? _THIS IS JUST A GUESS_

  2. The web site by Masa · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Aah... those fond memories. I remember, when I first time tried the PostgreSQL... I went to their web site and was scared away, because I thought it was some commercial closed source product that cannot even be evaluated without signing up for a demo version or something other horrible soul-eating stuff... The web site was so professional-looking even years ago that at the first time I was totally fooled about it.

    It's surprising, how huge effect a visual layout can have. At that time, I was only used to see ugly, unprofessional-looking open source project homepages. But PostgreSQL has always been an exception. In my opinion they have always had a very good-looking web site.

    It's surprising, how much visual appearance can affect our (or at least my) judgment. I hope that this is something that all OSS projects keep in mind when designing web sites and user interfaces.

  3. Re:Looks a lot like RedHat's site by JustinXB · · Score: 4, Interesting

    All websites look the same these days. http://www.apple.com/ and http://linspire.com/ for example.

  4. Best quote from the article by ThenAgain · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The biggest benefit of PostgreSQL 8.0.0 is that for the first time it will run natively on Microsoft Windows servers

    Honk if you think being able to run on Winders is the most important feature in this, the best relational DB around. I tend to think that not being able to run on Winduhs is a feature. It prevents PHBs from getting silly ideas like "Windows is a viable platform."

  5. New name by GCP · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yes, it's surprising how much effect some things can have.

    I wish they would upgrade the name to something less cutesy and more practical. I'm not trolling here, at least not intentionally. Unlike certain toy DBs that are more popular with Open Sourcers, PostreSQL is a serious, enterprise-class database that amazingly is available for free with no strings attached, even for commercial use. It's terrific.

    But the name is so bad that those who don't know the product well don't know how to pronounce it and those who do know it well are sick of pronouncing it and just call it "Postgres". Well, if it can't be officially called "Postgres" then it should get itself a name that works for both official and common use.

    --
    "Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded."
  6. New name ideas : PostSQL by systems · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just PostSQL,
    post as in after or even better beyond !!
    beyond sql
    and it can be pronounced postsequel

    postsequel is definitly easier on the tongue and easier to remember, but then I am not sure if it's smart to change names now ...