Thread: Free advertising opportunity for PostgreSQL in the "The Open Source Reference Book 2003"

Hi everyone,

Would someone please like to fill out the form mentioned in this article:

http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/21646-1.html

...to ensure PostgreSQL gets included in the listing of "Generally Regarded As Safe (GRAS)" software.  Please feel free
topost questions you're not sure about  
to this list, as we definitely wan't to make sure the information that gets in is accurate.

Am posting to this list, as I don't want to be the contact person they ask questions of!

;->

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

On Thursday 17 April 2003 14:43, Justin Clift wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Would someone please like to fill out the form mentioned in this article:
>
> http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/21646-1.html
>
> ...to ensure PostgreSQL gets included in the listing of "Generally Regarded
> As Safe (GRAS)" software.  Please feel free to post questions you're not
> sure about to this list, as we definitely wan't to make sure the
> information that gets in is accurate.
>
> Am posting to this list, as I don't want to be the contact person they ask
> questions of!

Two more relevant URLS are

http://www.egovos.org/book/
http://www.egovos.org/book/os_prj.html

I am going thr. it. Will come back later.

 Shridhar

OK. Taking a shot at it.

Answering http://www.egovos.org/book/os_prj.html, we need to get,(Assuming the
questionairre is not alerady filled)

1) A contact person to fill the top of the form with the information. Anybody
on behalf of postgresql Inc. would be great.

2)  Where do I find a concise, precise definition of "About Postgresql"? I
would like to write a new one in light of what we have. I think we do not have
a short and good enough desription of that. Correct me if I am wrong.

3) Do we have government references? Does not look like from case study
section. They would be great.

4) We need to make sure that we don't submit two entries for that.

That's it from me for time being. Sorry, been sleeping over it for long..

 Shridhar

On 23 Apr 2003 at 16:35, Robert Treat wrote:

> You didn't "come back later" :-)
>
> Did you make it through? Did you have questions?
> On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 05:24, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 April 2003 14:43, Justin Clift wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > Would someone please like to fill out the form mentioned in this article:
> > >
> > > http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/21646-1.html
> > >
> > > ...to ensure PostgreSQL gets included in the listing of "Generally Regarded
> > > As Safe (GRAS)" software.  Please feel free to post questions you're not
> > > sure about to this list, as we definitely wan't to make sure the
> > > information that gets in is accurate.
> > >
> > > Am posting to this list, as I don't want to be the contact person they ask
> > > questions of!
> >
> > Two more relevant URLS are
> >
> > http://www.egovos.org/book/
> > http://www.egovos.org/book/os_prj.html
> >
> > I am going thr. it. Will come back later.
> >
> >  Shridhar
> >
> >
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> > TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
>
>
>

On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 04:29, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> OK. Taking a shot at it.
>
> Answering http://www.egovos.org/book/os_prj.html, we need to get,(Assuming the
> questionairre is not alerady filled)
>
> 1) A contact person to fill the top of the form with the information. Anybody
> on behalf of postgresql Inc. would be great.
>

hmm...imo if we're going to pimp postgresql inc for this, let them fill
out the whole thing with whatever information they like.  If we're
speaking for the group, I'd narrow down the short list to Bruce, Josh,
Marc, or myself.

> 2)  Where do I find a concise, precise definition of "About Postgresql"? I
> would like to write a new one in light of what we have. I think we do not have
> a short and good enough desription of that. Correct me if I am wrong.
>

The current ones are available at:
http://advocacy.postgresql.org/about/
http://advocacy.postgresql.org/news/2002112801/

If you want to write up something else, please post it to the list and
we'll go from there.

> 3) Do we have government references? Does not look like from case study
> section. They would be great.
>

I believe we have more, but the only one I could come up with on short
notice was the Fred II site.
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/

> 4) We need to make sure that we don't submit two entries for that.
>

yep


Robert Treat

On Friday 25 April 2003 20:39, Robert Treat wrote:
> > 2)  Where do I find a concise, precise definition of "About Postgresql"?
> > I would like to write a new one in light of what we have. I think we do
> > not have a short and good enough desription of that. Correct me if I am
> > wrong.
>
> The current ones are available at:
> http://advocacy.postgresql.org/about/
> http://advocacy.postgresql.org/news/2002112801/

OK, I am trying here, because one of the above two is a version dependent
stuff and other is not about postgresql but about postgresql development
community.

So here is my shot.

---------------------------------------------
Postgresql

Postgresql is a full featured RDBMS grown from academics roots to an
enterprise class database, thanks to worldwide development community. It runs
on most variants of Unix systems and a native windows port will be available
by late 2003.

Postgresql strives for SQL standard compliance. It is simple and can work with
modest amount of  resources. Though postgresql ships with extremely modest
defaults, it can handle extremely large datasets with proper tuning and
hardware assistance.

Data integrity tops the list of postgresql priorities. That does not eclipse
the fact that it is very fast as well. It is very easy to administrator. One
of the reason it is simple to administer is that it believes in clear
separation of OS administration and database administration.

Postgresql features wide variety of accessiblity options like C/C++/Perl
bindings and JDBC/ODBC. Hence applications written in almost any
language/frontend can be made to talk to postgresql.

Postgresql is extremenly flexible. It allows to create user-defined data types
and languages. This provides immense amount of control and can be embedded in
operating environment to a great dpeth.

Postgresql supports multibyte character sets allowing multilingual data. It is
also capable to using most popular network connection types including IPv4
and IPv6. It also features a flexible security system.

Postgresql is supported by plethora of third party tools and libraries. This
makes working with postgresql extremenly easy.

Postgresql progress is contributed by it's users. Any contribution from
community is always welcome.
---------------------------------------------

So it is open for review. Any comments are welcome.

>
> If you want to write up something else, please post it to the list and
> we'll go from there.
>
> > 3) Do we have government references? Does not look like from case study
> > section. They would be great.
>
> I believe we have more, but the only one I could come up with on short
> notice was the Fred II site.
> http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/

I couldn't dig any page saying they use postgresql. That would be a great page
to link.

 Shridhar

> > 3) Do we have government references? Does not look like from case
> study
> > section. They would be great.
> >
>
> I believe we have more, but the only one I could come up with on short
> notice was the Fred II site.
> http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/

Hi guys,

Haven't taken a look at that link yet, but some of the places mentioned in the
report by the report the other day (Dravis or Davis Group?) have info here.

Platinum Solutions (www.platinumsolutions.com) is a Certified Partner of
PostgreSQL, and they have a large amount of Goverment style clients they do
PostgreSQL work for.

Another very strong example of PostgreSQL in Government is Development
Infosystems (www.devis.com), they _only_ do government level work, and use
PostgreSQL for just about everything.  Through them, PostgreSQL is in use for
many places:

http://www.devis.com/AboutDevIS/

Both Tom Jenkins, and their CEO, are friendly guys that will gladly discuss this
 if someone wants to say Hi to them, barring any information that might be
considered "too sensitive".

There are many more, but I can't think of them offhand as I've only exchanged a
few emails with most of them.

Hope that helps.

:-)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift


> > 4) We need to make sure that we don't submit two entries for that.
> >
>
> yep
>
>
> Robert Treat
>
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