> Some PR or marketing guy wrote them then showed them to the person to whom they'd be attributed to get their ok
I happen to know the guy that AFAIK was in charge of preparing the press release and he's actually a major contributor to the codebase, a geek par excellence and have been nagging people to get him quotes on the development mailing list.
The fact that apart from hacking C code he also knows how to write a catchy press release just makes him all the awesomer :)
That was some good combination. I always admire programmers than can also produce good design. Now, I will add marketer + programmer combination to my "admiration" list!
Yep, the people that can both produce and sell are a rare and very valuable breed, if only because they can actually understand what the other marketers need (or will pay for!).
This. Good devs who are able to better pimp their great work (such as anything in this Postgres release), are the devs that get the coolest job offers. So props to the great work by the Postgres team and their tasteful fact based self promotion. :-)
I happen to know the guy that AFAIK was in charge of preparing the press release and he's actually a major contributor to the codebase, a geek par excellence and have been nagging people to get him quotes on the development mailing list.
The fact that apart from hacking C code he also knows how to write a catchy press release just makes him all the awesomer :)