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Fellow PostgreSQL advocates:

For those that don't know me (most of you), let me introduce myself.

My name is Anthony Chavez, a software/network engineer, originally from
Salt Lake City, Utah (currently residing in Ogden).  I have had the
pleasure of being a PostgreSQL architect/administrator for almost 5
years now, though things in my life have been moving so frantically that
I haven't had time to really contribute anything to the project,
unfortunately.  That's got to change. ;-)

I'm writing to you today for two reasons.  First of all, it has been
brought to my attention that the "Community Advocate for MySQL" will be
making an appearance (see below) at the local Linux User's Group.
Though I don't want to come across as a troll, I would like to take the
opportunity to do some advocacy of my own.  I'd like to have a firm
grasp on the differences between PostgreSQL and MySQL and what, exactly,
makes PostgreSQL outshine.

The main reason that I chose PostgreSQL as my focus all these years is a
simple (and important) one: ACID compliance.  But beyond that, I'm
clueless.  I don't have as much exposure to MySQL as I should.  So any
pointers and ammo that you can offer would certainly be appreciated.

My second question---somewhat related to my first request---is this:
what has happened with store.pgsql.com?  I had a pretty decent thread
going with the salespeople about the possibility of getting some
PostgreSQL wear in larger sizes (XXL), but it suddenly ceased and I have
yet to receive any responses to my e-mails.  I also tried writing Marc
Fournier, who responded initially, but didn't respond to any of my other
e-mails.

I am very eager to get some shirts, and this announcement reminded me
that I needed to do something about it.

Hope to hear from you soon!

--
Anthony Chavez                             http://www.anthonychavez.org/
mailto:acc@anthonychavez.org         jabber:acc@jabber.anthonychavez.org

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From: Doug Beattie <dbb@linkexplorer.com>
To: sllug-members@sllug.org
Subject: [sllug-members]: December meeting presentations
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 08:34:54 -0600

While at Linux World Expo. I was able to get with the Community Advocate
of MySQL. He agreed to come present at our SLLUG meeting on December 17th.

There are a number of topics he could present to us and has asked that
we look over them, take a poll, then let him know which one he should
present to us.

Here are the topics:

1) MySQL New Features Workshop
---
Get your hands dirty playing with some of the new features that have
been added to MySQL versions 4, 4.1 and 5


2) The State of the Dolphin 2003: Deep Waters and Strange Seas
---
Learn about the technical and business issues that MySQL AB has faced
over the course of 2003. Find out more about how we partnered with SAP,
why we chose to modify our licensing and what our major new feature
look like.


3) The Devil and the Penguin: The Perils of Open/Free Licensing in a
   Proprietary World
---
A fun talk on licensing and community in the Free Software/Open Source
universe.


4) He could also give an abbreviated version of his OSCON 2003 tutorial
   http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2003/view/e_sess/4262


Please reply to me with your choice within the next week so I can let
the presenter know and finalize what he will be giving us.

Thanks,
Doug
--
Doug Beattie
dbb@linkexplorer.com
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