| From: | Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar(at)myrealbox(dot)com> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: This has *got* to be someone in our community |
| Date: | 2003-12-15 07:52:56 |
| Message-ID: | 3FDD6858.4000700@myrealbox.com |
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I remember there was a fair bit of tossing around when that directory got
published.. There was an article on Newsforge(IIRC?) as well.
But that wasn't from pgsql advocacy though..
Shridhar
Josh Berkus wrote:
> Who is it? 'Fess up!
>
> http://www.newsforge.com/software/03/12/10/2345242.shtml?tid=131&tid=2&tid=82&tid=94
> "While Linux and the Web grew up together, the Linux desktop has also become
> useful for print media. TeX, the typesetting computer language originally
> developed on a DEC minicomputer in 1980, is alive and well on Linux. In
> March, India's largest phone company used TeX and a PostgreSQL database to
> turn out 400,000 copies of the two-volume telephone directory for
> Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala province. The project, which had
> required 50 people and six months' time using conventional print production
> technology, was accomplished in four months by a smaller team using Linux. "
>
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