[I am CC'ing Xshare on this.]

I am very impressed with Xshare at http://www.xshare.com.  They have a
nice timely list of open source Unix software, with nice descriptions
and links to home pages.

I have worked with them on a number of issues, and they have been
helpful.  Of course, they list PostgreSQL.  Recently, I mentioned we
have released 6.4.2(they were listing 6.4.1), and mentioned they could
subscribe to the 'announce' list to receive news on updates.  They have
subscribed, so will always have the most recent version listed.  Their
current listing for us is:

	Login	 Add Software	Account 
	PostgreSQL 6.4.2 
								Plexus
							    18/01/1999
	PostgreSQL is a robust, next-generation,
	Object-Relational DBMS (ORDBMS), derived from
	the Berkeley Postgres database management system.
	While PostgreSQL retains the powerful
	object-relational data model, rich data types and
	easy extensibility of Postgres, it replaces the PostQuel
	query language with an extended subset of SQL. 

	After 5 intense months of development, the
	PostgreSQL Global Development Group is pleased to
	announce the release of v6.4, a much improved
	release of the popular PostgreSQL ORDBMS. As
	always, there is *alot* of new features, bug fixes and
	changes since the last release...over 200 lines worth in
	our HISTORY file. 
					 
	Author: 
	Homepage: 
		http://www.postgresql.org 
	Documentation:  
		http://www.postgresql.org/docs/ 
	Licence: 
		unknown 
	Systems: 
		FreeBSD, HP-Unix, Irix, Linux, NetBSD,
		OpenBSD, Solaris 
	Download: 
		http://www.postgresql.org/sites.html
		http://www.postgresql.org/sites.html
		ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql-6.4.2.tar.gz
		ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/
		ftp://ftp.chicks.net/pub/postgresql 


This is quite a bit of interesting information.  Perhaps we should add a
link on our homepage that says:  "For information on other open source
software, see Xshare."  It is hard to know all the software available,
and Xshare helps in that.
 
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Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:45:08 -0500 (EST)
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Adding Xshare to our web site
Neat. A couple of details:

>         After 5 intense months of development, the
>         PostgreSQL Global Development Group is pleased to
>         announce the release of v6.4, a much improved
>         release of the popular PostgreSQL ORDBMS. As
>         always, there is *alot* of new features, bug fixes and
>         changes since the last release...over 200 lines worth in
>         our HISTORY file.

The reader won't know that each change item is listed on one line. So
perhaps the next Xshare synopsis could refer to "over 200 distinct fixes
and enhancements from the last release".

>         Author:

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group, per our copyright notice?

>         Licence:
>                 unknown

BSD?

>         Systems:
>                 FreeBSD, HP-Unix, Irix, Linux, NetBSD,
>                 OpenBSD, Solaris

Many more than that...

                       - Tom

Fri, 22 Jan 1999 06:08:20 +0000
"Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
Re: [HACKERS] Adding Xshare to our web site