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

Fri, 13 Sep 2002 05:35:49 +1000
Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>
Looking for more "big name" places that use PostgreSQL
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


Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:58:11 -0600 (MDT)
"scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>
Looking for more "big name" places that use PostgreSQL
"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

Fri, 13 Sep 2002 07:11:21 +1000
Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>
Re: Looking for more "big name" places that use PostgreSQL
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
>
>  
>





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Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:42:26 -0700
"Gavin M. Roy" <gmr@justsportsusa.com>
Re: [GENERAL] Looking for more "big name" places that use PostgreSQL

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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Sun, 15 Sep 2002 23:08:39 -0400 (EDT)
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: [GENERAL] Looking for more "big name" places that use PostgreSQL