Re: Time to work on Press Release 8.0 - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Time to work on Press Release 8.0
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Msg-id 200408140325.i7E3PZD24285@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Time to work on Press Release 8.0  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>)
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >> On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >>
> >>> Josh Berkus wrote:
> >>>> I think this may be an area where the US and Europe are a bit
> >>>> different. While I don't get the above quote, I do constantly get
> >>>> requests for references around "who else is using it" because nobody
> >>>> over here wants to be a maverick.
> >>>
> >>> I also get that, and it might be a good idea to get answers to that
> >>> included in some way.  But note that mentioning sponsors is really not
> >>> at all the same thing as mentioning prominent existing users.
> >>
> >> Good point ... it would be of more value to find out how Fujitsu is using
> >> PostgreSQL inhouse, then to find out that they are sponsoring development
> >> ... are they even using it inhouse for anything?
> >
> > Fujitsu is promoting PostgreSQL as a powerful database for their
> > customers and their hardware platform.
>
> So they don't actually use it?

Internally?  I have no idea.  FYI, they are a big computer hardware
manufacturer.

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