Re: What are your using it for?

From: Adriaan Joubert <a(dot)joubert(at)albourne(dot)com>
To: rcook(at)bix(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: What are your using it for?
Date: 2000-04-19 19:20:31
Message-ID: 38FE06FF.310F3643@albourne.com
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> > I'm working a piece on open-source databases for LinuxWorld magazine and
> > I'd like to know what people are actually using postgresql for.
>

We are using it for financial applications. Both as store for trading data
(in one database we have well over 2-million data points for daily trading
data) and as back-end for our (private) web servers. These are both for our
own use and increasingly for our customers. We run Digital Unix, and postgres
runs on a 2-processor DS-20. For a small organisation Oracle is just too
expensive on high-end hardware and postgres is pretty good and improving all
the time. Show me another system where you can either fix bugs yourself or
get a fix off the mailing list in a few hours!

Adriaan

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