Re: This has *got* to be someone in our community - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Shridhar Daithankar
Subject Re: This has *got* to be someone in our community
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Msg-id 3FDD6858.4000700@myrealbox.com
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In response to This has *got* to be someone in our community .....  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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I remember there was a fair bit of tossing around when that directory got
published.. There was an article on Newsforge(IIRC?) as well.

But that wasn't from pgsql advocacy though..

  Shridhar

Josh Berkus wrote:

> Who is it?  'Fess up!
>
> http://www.newsforge.com/software/03/12/10/2345242.shtml?tid=131&tid=2&tid=82&tid=94
> "While Linux and the Web grew up together, the Linux desktop has also become
> useful for print media. TeX, the typesetting computer language originally
> developed on a DEC minicomputer in 1980, is alive and well on Linux. In
> March, India's largest phone company used TeX and a PostgreSQL database to
> turn out 400,000 copies of the two-volume telephone directory for
> Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala province. The project, which had
> required 50 people and six months' time using conventional print production
> technology, was accomplished in four months by a smaller team using Linux. "
>


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