Re: [pgadmin-support] Goodbye

Dear pgAdmin Community,

You may be aware that the pgAdmin project has been in existence for
nearly 11 years now. During this time, the development team have spent
thousands of hours writing hundreds of thousands of lines of code and
documentation, engineering complex features and support for multiple
versions of PostgreSQL, Postgres Plus and Greenplum, and providing
support to thousands of users. As I'm sure you can understand, after
so many years a group of the development team members have reached the
point where we feel we've given as much as we can to the project.

Having received a offer from a very large and well known software
company for ownership of our copyright to the source code, we have
decided to close down the project, effective immediately. I cannot
speak for all of my colleagues on the development team but personally
I am looking forward to a complete change of lifestyle, having
purchased a farm in New Zealand where my family and I will be raising
sheep and I get to play thrash metal on my bass guitar as loudly as I
like without annoying the neighbours! Magnus tells me he is looking
into upgrading his yacht and taking a trip around the world, and
Guillaume is going to spend his time drinking wine in his new vinyard
at Château Margoux.

Please be aware that the mailing lists and website will be shutdown
around 12PM today as the project transitions to its new owner who will
be announcing availability of support contracts and professional
services shortly.

I'd like to thank all of our users and contributors over the past 11
years - it's been an absolute pleasure working with all of you.

--
Dave Page
pgAdmin Project Lead

Hello, Dave

Dave Page rašė:
> As I'm sure you can understand, after
> so many years a group of the development team members have reached the
> point where we feel we've given as much as we can to the project.
>
Nice joke. For a moment I took seriously what you said about closing the
project. Thank god its April 01 :)

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Julius Tuskenis
Programavimo skyriaus vadovas
UAB nSoft
mob. +37068233050

Dave Page escribió:
> Dear pgAdmin Community,
>
> You may be aware that the pgAdmin project has been in existence for
> nearly 11 years now. During this time, the development team have spent
> thousands of hours writing hundreds of thousands of lines of code and
> documentation, engineering complex features and support for multiple
> versions of PostgreSQL, Postgres Plus and Greenplum, and providing
> support to thousands of users. As I'm sure you can understand, after
> so many years a group of the development team members have reached the
> point where we feel we've given as much as we can to the project.
>
> Having received a offer from a very large and well known software
> company for ownership of our copyright to the source code, we have
> decided to close down the project, effective immediately. I cannot
> speak for all of my colleagues on the development team but personally
> I am looking forward to a complete change of lifestyle, having
> purchased a farm in New Zealand where my family and I will be raising
> sheep and I get to play thrash metal on my bass guitar as loudly as I
> like without annoying the neighbours! Magnus tells me he is looking
> into upgrading his yacht and taking a trip around the world, and
> Guillaume is going to spend his time drinking wine in his new vinyard
> at Château Margoux.
>
> Please be aware that the mailing lists and website will be shutdown
> around 12PM today as the project transitions to its new owner who will
> be announcing availability of support contracts and professional
> services shortly.
>
> I'd like to thank all of our users and contributors over the past 11
> years - it's been an absolute pleasure working with all of you.
>

Wow. I almost believe it, until I realize that today is April 1 and in
some parts of the word if Fool's Day or something like that.

My first thought was something similar to a relative passing away. Strange.

Regards,
Diego.

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On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:

> Dear pgAdmin Community,
>
> You may be aware that the pgAdmin project has been in existence for
> nearly 11 years now. During this time, the development team have spent
> thousands of hours writing hundreds of thousands of lines of code and
> documentation, engineering complex features and support for multiple
> versions of PostgreSQL, Postgres Plus and Greenplum, and providing
> support to thousands of users. As I'm sure you can understand, after
> so many years a group of the development team members have reached the
> point where we feel we've given as much as we can to the project.
>
> Having received a offer from a very large and well known software
> company for ownership of our copyright to the source code, we have
> decided to close down the project, effective immediately.

Here is when I said: "Ownership of the copyright? WTF! What day is it...
what day is it today?!"

> I cannot speak for all of my colleagues on the development team but
> personally
> I am looking forward to a complete change of lifestyle, having
> purchased a farm in New Zealand where my family and I will be raising
> sheep and I get to play thrash metal on my bass guitar as loudly as I
> like without annoying the neighbours! Magnus tells me he is looking
> into upgrading his yacht and taking a trip around the world, and
> Guillaume is going to spend his time drinking wine in his new vinyard
> at Château Margoux.

Raising sheep... lol.

> I'd like to thank all of our users and contributors over the past 11
> years - it's been an absolute pleasure working with all of you.
>

You are most welcome :)
It has been -and still is- an absolute pleasure to use this fine
application.

Best regards,
Fernando.

Hi, I almost believe it, ouchh because in my country Fool's Day is at
december 28....

:)

Good joke...

Regards,
Luis.

Two questions:
1) Which island of East Bondi do you intend to settle in? The northern
or the southern one?
2) Will we be seeing any creative sheep farming like in the following link?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw

Andrew

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> Dear pgAdmin Community,
>
> You may be aware that the pgAdmin project has been in existence for
> nearly 11 years now. During this time, the development team have spent
> thousands of hours writing hundreds of thousands of lines of code and
> documentation, engineering complex features and support for multiple
> versions of PostgreSQL, Postgres Plus and Greenplum, and providing
> support to thousands of users. As I'm sure you can understand, after
> so many years a group of the development team members have reached the
> point where we feel we've given as much as we can to the project.
>
> Having received a offer from a very large and well known software
> company for ownership of our copyright to the source code, we have
> decided to close down the project, effective immediately. I cannot
> speak for all of my colleagues on the development team but personally
> I am looking forward to a complete change of lifestyle, having
> purchased a farm in New Zealand where my family and I will be raising
> sheep and I get to play thrash metal on my bass guitar as loudly as I
> like without annoying the neighbours! Magnus tells me he is looking
> into upgrading his yacht and taking a trip around the world, and
> Guillaume is going to spend his time drinking wine in his new vinyard
> at Château Margoux.
>
> Please be aware that the mailing lists and website will be shutdown
> around 12PM today as the project transitions to its new owner who will
> be announcing availability of support contracts and professional
> services shortly.
>
> I'd like to thank all of our users and contributors over the past 11
> years - it's been an absolute pleasure working with all of you.
>
> --
> Dave Page
> pgAdmin Project Lead
>
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On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Andrew Maclean
<andrew(dot)amaclean(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
a> Two questions:
> 1) Which island of East Bondi do you intend to settle in? The northern
> or the southern one?

You'll have to excuse my ignorance, but what does East Bondi have to
do with New Zealand? I thought Bondi was in New South Wales?

And let's go with the south island :-)

> 2) Will we be seeing any creative sheep farming like in the following link?
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw

LOL!!

I'll take the opportunity now (before I head off to sleep) to point
out to everyone that hasn't looked at their calendar today that it's
April the 1st (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_fool) and the
pgAdmin copyright isn't really being sold to EnterpriseDB/Oracle
(http://pgsnake.blogspot.com/2009/04/goodbye.html#comments) Thanks
for all the interesting replies, both on and off-list :-)

--
Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com

Dave Page wrote:

>On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Andrew Maclean
><andrew(dot)amaclean(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>a> Two questions:
>
>
>>1) Which island of East Bondi do you intend to settle in? The northern
>>or the southern one?
>>
>>
>
>You'll have to excuse my ignorance, but what does East Bondi have to
>do with New Zealand? I thought Bondi was in New South Wales?
>
Andrew lives in the West Island, therefore, the other islands are east
of him.

>
>And let's go with the south island :-)
>
>
You will like the South Island

Steve Martin, Wellington, North Island, NZ