Re: Time to work on Press Release 8.0

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Time to work on Press Release 8.0
Date: 2004-08-14 03:25:35
Message-ID: 200408140325.i7E3PZD24285@candle.pha.pa.us
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >> On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >>
> >>> Josh Berkus wrote:
> >>>> I think this may be an area where the US and Europe are a bit
> >>>> different. While I don't get the above quote, I do constantly get
> >>>> requests for references around "who else is using it" because nobody
> >>>> over here wants to be a maverick.
> >>>
> >>> I also get that, and it might be a good idea to get answers to that
> >>> included in some way. But note that mentioning sponsors is really not
> >>> at all the same thing as mentioning prominent existing users.
> >>
> >> Good point ... it would be of more value to find out how Fujitsu is using
> >> PostgreSQL inhouse, then to find out that they are sponsoring development
> >> ... are they even using it inhouse for anything?
> >
> > Fujitsu is promoting PostgreSQL as a powerful database for their
> > customers and their hardware platform.
>
> So they don't actually use it?

Internally? I have no idea. FYI, they are a big computer hardware
manufacturer.

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