Thread: PostgreSQL usage in government

Hi everyone,

Recevied this the other day.  Anyone feel like assisting here?

:-)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

-------- Original Message --------
Date:     Fri, 6 Jun 2003 17:10:52 -0400
From:     William.Langstroth@edu.gov.on.ca
To:     justin@postgresql.org



Hi there,



I'd like to push for the migration from Oracle to Postgres, but I need
some more executive-sounding ammo.  Apparently "it costs nothing and
it's good" doesn't work (amazingly).  Do you know of anyone who has
successfully lobbied for use in government?



/Will Langstroth/

/Web Application Analyst/

/Business Services Branch/

/Ministry of Education/

/(416) 325-9796/

Hi Will,

You may want to contact the folks at DevIS, who have done quite a bit of
government oriented work (see http://www.devis.com/AboutDevIS/)

You can also contact Platinum Solutions, who have done some work for
various government agencies
(http://www.platinumsolutions.com/successstories/

I also know that the Fred II site runs on PostgreSQL
(http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/) which contains federal economic
data.

Also if you just need some general case studies, we have a few available
at http://advocacy.postgresql.org/casestudies/ including a link to the
Dravis Group report which covers the conversion of the .org tld from
Oracle to a PostgreSQL based solution.

Hope this helps,

Robert Treat
PostgreSQL Advocacy Team


On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 00:37:
> From:     William.Langstroth@edu.gov.on.ca
> Hi there,
>
> I'd like to push for the migration from Oracle to Postgres, but I need
> some more executive-sounding ammo.  Apparently "it costs nothing and
> it's good" doesn't work (amazingly).  Do you know of anyone who has
> successfully lobbied for use in government?
>
>
>
> /Will Langstroth/
>
> /Web Application Analyst/
>
> /Business Services Branch/
>
> /Ministry of Education/
>
> /(416) 325-9796/
>
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