Re: Semi-final draft for press release

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> Rob Napier and I have been hammering on this for several days. The
> draft looks very different now; we're trying to make it news even for
> the sites which covered the beta. As Rob pointed out to me, if folks
> already saw it 4 months ago, it's not news.
>
> Here's our semi-final text. Please point out any *major* problems; at
> this point, it's too late for fancy wordsmithing and debating themes.
> Also, do keep in mind that the target audience of this release is *the
> press*, and not our own community.
>
> Company names have been redacted because, well, you know.
>

Good press release. Reads well and is compelling. No major issues I can
see.

>
> ========================
>
> ## SEPTEMBER 2012: The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces
> PostgreSQL 9.2, the latest release of the leader in open source
> databases. Since the beta release was announced in May, developers and
> vendors have praised it as a leap forward in performance, scalability
> and flexibility. Users are expected to switch to this version in record
> numbers.
>
> "PostgreSQL 9.2 will ship with native JSON support, covering indexes,
> replication and performance improvements, and many more features. We are
> eagerly awaiting this release and will make it available in Early Access
> as soon as it’s released by the PostgreSQL community," said Senior
> Engineer, Web2.0 Company.
>
> Improved Performance and Scalability
>
> Hewlett Packard has adopted PostgreSQL for their remote support software
> and to power their HP-UX/Itanium solutions.
>
> "With the release of PostgreSQL 9.2, the PostgreSQL Project has
> significantly advanced scalability and developer flexibility to provide
> our customers a highly performant database for their most demanding
> workloads," Manager at Big Tech Company said. "We are especially happy
> with the addition of linear scalability to 64 cores, index-only scans
> and reductions in CPU power consumption."
>
> Improvements in vertical scalability increase PostgreSQL's ability to
> efficiently utilize hardware resources on larger servers. Advances in
> lock management, write efficiency, index-only access and other low-level
> operations allow PostgreSQL to handle even larger-volume workloads.
> Numerically, this means:
>
> * Up to 350,000 read queries per second (more than 4X faster)
> * Index-only scans for data warehousing queries (up to 20X faster)
> * Up to 14,000 data writes per second (5X faster)
>
> Also, the addition of cascading replication enables users to run even
> larger stacks of horizontally scaled servers under PostgreSQL 9.2.
>
> "SomeSocialSite relies on Postgres for storing millions of sites and
> subscriptions. Solid and reliable for years," said Some Guy, founder of
> SomeSocialSite.com. "We're consistently on the bleeding edge (9.1 now,
> moving to 9.2 soon for the cascading replication alone) and it's been a
> pleasure since 8.4."
>
> Flexibile Developer Support
>
> The flexibility of PostgreSQL is reflected in the diversity of
> organisations that have adopted it. For example NASA, the FAA, Chicago
> Mercantile Exchange and Instagram all rely on it to perform
> mission-critical applications. Version 9.2 extends this flexibility
> even further by including support for Range Types and JSON, allowing
> developers to use PostgreSQL in completely new ways.
>
> Range Types allow developers to create better calendaring, scientific,
> and financial applications. No other major SQL database supports this
> feature, which enables intelligent handling of blocks of time and numbers.
>
> With PostgreSQL 9.2, query results can be returned as JSON data types.
> Combined with the new PL/v8 Javascript and PL/Coffee database
> programming extensions, and the optional HStore key-value store, users
> can now utilize PostgreSQL like a "NoSQL" document database, while
> retaining PostgreSQL's reliability, flexibility and performance.
>
> "Native JSON support in PostgresSQL provides an efficient mechanism for
> creating and storing documents for web APIs. We use front-end libraries
> like jQuery to request tabular and tree-structured data; and the new
> features make it convenient and provide performance advantages in
> retrieving that data as JSON, " said Senior Architect, TelCo Inc.
>
>
>
>
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