Re: Wanted: new project slogan

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 13:34 -0500, Joshua Kramer wrote:
> > > Open Source Power and Reliability
> >
> > Here's a novel idea. Can we create a slogan (and other marketing
> > collateral) without the use of the term "Open Source"? This may give
> > Postgres a 'foot in the door' to those entities who are irrationally
> > afraid of Open Source software... I am aiming directly at the vast
> > majority of SQL-Server workloads for which SQL-Server's advanced features
> > (reporting, DotNet integration, etc) are not needed. For example:
> >
>
> Not a bad idea but... uh -- We have DotNet capabilties, reporting
> capabilities etc...
>
>
I could be wrong but I believe he meant LINQ and MDX. I was going to write
a really incredulous email about how we indeed don't have those features but
it turns out we have both:
There are a few open source and at least on commercial product to provide
LINQ to PostgreSQL support. From what I can tell the open source products
aren't really done yet. One says it doesn't support transactions.
The open source Mondrian project can sit in front of a whole bunch of
different databases, including PostgreSQL, to provide MDX capabilities.

The problem is none of them right out of the box so to speak. They all take
fiddling.

Nik Everett