Thread: Looking for more "big name" places that use PostgreSQL
Hi everyone, We're looking to get an initial "PostgreSQL Advocacy and Marketing" site up an running in the next day or so. Whilst we know of a reasonable number of large places running PostgreSQL (as shown on the http://techdocs.postgresql.org/techdocs/supportcontracts.php page), we're still looking for further examples. Specifically, we are looking for places that are happy to discuss it, either a) not publicly, or b) happy to let the world know about it. Probably about 1/3 to 1/4 of the large organisations that we know are using PostgreSQL for important work aren't yet able to announce it publicly. Please don't let this stop you from letting us know privately, as we are interested in the implementation details and will respect your confidentiality. So, if you're using PostgreSQL and haven't directly let us know, please do so now if you can. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi
I don't know how big our name is, but IHS, or Information Handling Services has been in the information industry for over 40 years, starting with paper indexes to catalogs, and moving into specs and standards, parametric data, and dozens of other catagories. While our big financial and online databases are all mainframe / idms / cics or Solaris / Oracle, we are using postgresql more and more for internal projects and are quite happy with it. So far it is slowly pushing out MSSQL server and the other smaller backend databases, mainly because it is stable, fast, and free, the three mythical qualities you can only get two of most of the time. I'm not in marketing, and I don't speak for IHS as a company, I'm just one of the trained web monkeys / postgresql dbas working in the back shop here, so it's probably best to just say we use it for internal projects and such on the web. Scott Marlowe
"scott.marlowe" wrote: <snip> > I'm not in marketing, and I don't speak for IHS as a company, I'm just one > of the trained web monkeys / postgresql dbas working in the back shop > here, so it's probably best to just say we use it for internal projects > and such on the web. Cool. Thanks heaps Scott. :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > > Scott Marlowe -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi
Hi Justin, Just Sports USA, my employer is the largest professional sports licensed merchandise retailer in the US and we use PostgreSQL as the foundation of our technology solution that runs everything from our purchasing system to our in-store point-of-sale systems. Contact me if you would like a more detailed description of our use, how it's worked flawlessly for us for over 3 years, or anything else related. Gavin M. Roy CIO Just Sports USA Justin Clift wrote: >Hi everyone, > >We're looking to get an initial "PostgreSQL Advocacy and Marketing" site >up an running in the next day or so. > >Whilst we know of a reasonable number of large places running PostgreSQL >(as shown on the >http://techdocs.postgresql.org/techdocs/supportcontracts.php page), >we're still looking for further examples. > >Specifically, we are looking for places that are happy to discuss it, >either a) not publicly, or b) happy to let the world know about it. > >Probably about 1/3 to 1/4 of the large organisations that we know are >using PostgreSQL for important work aren't yet able to announce it >publicly. Please don't let this stop you from letting us know >privately, as we are interested in the implementation details and will >respect your confidentiality. > >So, if you're using PostgreSQL and haven't directly let us know, please >do so now if you can. > >:-) > >Regards and best wishes, > >Justin Clift > > > --------------------------------------------------------- Scanned by Sophos Anti-Virus v3.59TPOS, MIMEDefang v2.19, and Spam Assassin v2.31 on satchel.bteg.net
Yes, and I am going to start working on advocacy this week. If you are
interested in sharing your experience of PostgreSQL with others, please
subscribe to the advocacy mailing list. Some items I want to focus on
are:
quotations
company users
beef up developers list, add companies
success stories
BSD license
funding
non-technical papers
phone/email/visit potential PostgreSQL sites
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Justin Clift wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> We're looking to get an initial "PostgreSQL Advocacy and Marketing" site
> up an running in the next day or so.
>
> Whilst we know of a reasonable number of large places running PostgreSQL
> (as shown on the
> http://techdocs.postgresql.org/techdocs/supportcontracts.php page),
> we're still looking for further examples.
>
> Specifically, we are looking for places that are happy to discuss it,
> either a) not publicly, or b) happy to let the world know about it.
>
> Probably about 1/3 to 1/4 of the large organisations that we know are
> using PostgreSQL for important work aren't yet able to announce it
> publicly. Please don't let this stop you from letting us know
> privately, as we are interested in the implementation details and will
> respect your confidentiality.
>
> So, if you're using PostgreSQL and haven't directly let us know, please
> do so now if you can.
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