Thread: First article in France about PostgreSQL v8
Hi all, As announced last week, I was already contacted about the upcoming release. The journalist didn't want to wait because he was going to publish this weekend. It's now done. It's in French, but here is for the record: http://www.itrmanager.com/article.php?oid=34636 It's pretty nice since it the title says that the article is about Open Source DBMS, but the article has about 8 paragraphs about PostgreSQL and only 3 about MySQL 5 :-) In particular, the journalist kept my remarks about the more restrictive license used by MySQL. Now the journalist had a question I wasn't able to answer and I think would be a nice addition to the press FAQ collected by Josh: what large (i.e. reknowned) applications support PostgreSQL in fields such as ERP, CRM, CMS, etc.? And the journalist didn't mean more Open Source stuff, but commercial applications. I suppose he was looking for signs of respectability... By the way, what is it exactly that Hyperic's software does? I coulnd't get past the marketese stuff on their web site (please, Hyperic guys on the list, don't take offence). Cheers --------------- Francois Home page: http://www.monpetitcoin.com/ "If it's not from me, it's from Confucius" - Lao Tse
On January 10, 2005 04:17 am, Francois Suter wrote: > As announced last week, I was already contacted about the upcoming > release. > > http://www.itrmanager.com/article.php?oid=34636 No doubt about it, a very pro-postgresql article :-) > Now the journalist had a question I wasn't able to answer and I think > would be a nice addition to the press FAQ collected by Josh: what large > (i.e. reknowned) applications support PostgreSQL in fields such as ERP, > CRM, CMS, etc.? And the journalist didn't mean more Open Source stuff, > but commercial applications. I suppose he was looking for signs of > respectability... Ah, case studies..... (I'm slowly writing more)
Francois, > Now the journalist had a question I wasn't able to answer and I think > would be a nice addition to the press FAQ collected by Josh: what large > (i.e. reknowned) applications support PostgreSQL in fields such as ERP, > CRM, CMS, etc.? And the journalist didn't mean more Open Source stuff, > but commercial applications. I suppose he was looking for signs of > respectability... Well, OpenMFG (www.openmfg.com) was built on PostgreSQL. So was Hyperic. Pretty much everything else is a custom application for some company; our inclusion in large, proprietary software is still a ways off, except maybe in Japan. > By the way, what is it exactly that Hyperic's software does? I coulnd't > get past the marketese stuff on their web site (please, Hyperic guys on > the list, don't take offence). Hyperic is a modernized, more economical alternative to Tivoli and other enterprise server room management utilities. It lets you track multiple statistics and events for multiple servers running a half-dozen different operating systems through a web interface. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco
Hi Javier, > I hope the brief blurb clarifies this for you, and for all the other > folks on the list who are curious. I'll also take the opportunity again > to thank the PG dev community. Hyperic is proud to support Postgres, > and > will continue to do so since our product is bringing awareness of PG to > folks who may have otherwise not known much about it. Yes, thanks for your explanations, it is much clearer now. Cheers. --------------- Francois Home page: http://www.monpetitcoin.com/ "If it's not from me, it's from Confucius" - Lao Tse
Francois, > By the way, what is it exactly that Hyperic's software does? > I coulnd't get past the marketese stuff on their web site > (please, Hyperic guys on the list, don't take offence). None taken, tho I hope for our sake more folks can get our message. We'll be releasing a new website here in a few weeks which should be a lot easier to grok. As for what our software does... Hyperic HQ is an IT management framework used to manage many different types of technologies (PostgreSQL included) from a single web portal interface. HQ provides inventory auto-discovery, monitoring, control, and integrated alerting for the entire stack (machine level-> software level-> component level). HQ uses PostgreSQL as its built in database, which it ships for Win32, Linux, Solaris, and HP/UX. We've been shipping PostgreSQL as our backend database since 8.0 beta2, and have had extraordinary success signing up customers for our solution. Prior to including PG, our only database alternative was Oracle, which was a significant limiting factor for the growth of our platform. As a side note, today we released HQ 2.0 which includes PostgreSQL 8.0 RC4. HQ 2.0 has a completely revamped GUI, and a number of other scalability improvements which really show off how well PostgreSQL can match up to other products like Oracle. I invite everyone to check it out! I hope the brief blurb clarifies this for you, and for all the other folks on the list who are curious. I'll also take the opportunity again to thank the PG dev community. Hyperic is proud to support Postgres, and will continue to do so since our product is bringing awareness of PG to folks who may have otherwise not known much about it.
Francois, > > By the way, what is it exactly that Hyperic's software does? > I coulnd't get past the marketese stuff on their web site > (please, Hyperic guys on the list, don't take offence). <Sorry, I had sent this reply a few days ago before I realized my subscription to this list was w/ an address different than the one I was sending with> None taken, tho I hope for our sake more folks can get our message. We'll be releasing a new website here in a few weeks which should be a lot easier to grok. As for what our software does... Hyperic HQ is an IT management framework used to manage many different types of technologies (PostgreSQL included) from a single web portal interface. HQ provides inventory auto-discovery, monitoring, control, and integrated alerting for the entire stack (machine level-> software level-> component level). HQ uses PostgreSQL as its built in database, which it ships for Win32, Linux, Solaris, and HP/UX. We've been shipping PostgreSQL as our backend database since 8.0 beta2, and have had extraordinary success signing up customers for our solution. Prior to including PG, our only database alternative was Oracle, which was a significant limiting factor for the growth of our platform. As a side note, today we released HQ 2.0 which includes PostgreSQL 8.0 RC4. HQ 2.0 has a completely revamped GUI, and a number of other scalability improvements which really show off how well PostgreSQL can match up to other products like Oracle. I invite everyone to check it out! I hope the brief blurb clarifies this for you, and for all the other folks on the list who are curious. I'll also take the opportunity again to thank the PG dev community. Hyperic is proud to support Postgres, and will continue to do so since our product is bringing awareness of PG to folks who may have otherwise not known much about it. -javier