Thread: This has *got* to be someone in our community .....

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. "

--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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. "
>