Re: List of prominent users - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Robert Treat
Subject Re: List of prominent users
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Msg-id 200512041036.02415.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net
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In response to Re: List of prominent users  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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On Sunday 04 December 2005 03:26, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > step further, every company that uses a powerbook uses postgresql (in
> > theory) but I wouldn't base things on that either.
>
> I would say exactly that.... If you use a recent powerbook, you use
> postgresql. It lends itself to the credibility argument. Apple has some
> pretty strong street cred and if they are willing to trust us by putting
> us behind the scenes... That is a huge thing.

There's one thing in "saying" it, but quite another in actually listing such
companies on the site.  Take for example a company like Podshow (a new
podcasting venture); they are building everything around the dim LAMP stack
(meaning w/ my$ql, i guess because they know podcasts but dont really know
databases), but a large majority of the people in the company are doing
podcasts on some form of Apple computer. So we *could* list them as people
who use postgresql, but if you contacted the people in charge there they
would probably deny it (not realizing that it's included on thier systems).
That seems like a PR nightmare to me...

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Robert Treat
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

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