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The following Professional Services are registered in Africa.
| Name | BRLink - Solucoes em TI (http://www.brlink.com.br) | |
| Provides | Provides both support and hosting. | |
| Description | BRLink is a company that provides open source technical services, consulting, hosting on PostgreSQL. | |
| Number of employees | 15 | |
| Office locations | São Paulo - Brasil | |
| Hours | 08:30 às 18:00 | |
| Languages | English - Português do Brasil | |
| Experience | 8 years with PostgreSQL | |
| Contact information | Rafael Marangoni - contato@brlink.com.br |
| Name | ctrlF5 (http://www.ctrlf5.co.za) | |
| Description | Control-F5 is a specialised consultancy with a strong interest in open source software solutions, particularly Postgres for BI and CMS backends. | |
| Office locations | Johannesburg (South Africa) | |
| Experience | 15 years across the database landscape, from Access to Universe, past all things relational and nested relational - including Postgres, DB/2, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server. Six years specifically on Postgres. | |
| Contact information | Bell on bell@ctrlf5.co.za or +27 82 454 1168 |
| Name | EnterpriseDB Corporation (http://www.enterprisedb.com/) | |
| Description | The world's leading provider of PostgreSQL support, professional services and training. Support is provided 24x7 on a global basis. Specialists in design, architecture, implementation and management of PostgreSQL. Database optimisation and performance tuning a specialty. Also deliver RemoteDBA services to provide day to day management of PostgreSQL and EnterpriseDB databases. | |
| Number of employees | 100-200 | |
| Office locations | New Jersey & Massachusetts USA, Oxford, England, Islamabad Pakistan, Pune India | |
| Hours | 24x7 worldwide | |
| Languages | English | |
| Customer example | "We chose EnterpriseDB to work with us on PostgreSQL support, because we've been continually impressed by their PostgreSQL expertise, customer focus and support capabilities." -- Vice President for System Software, Sun Microsystems Telco - Entertainment/Gaming - Retail - Finance - Government - Internet - Manufacturing | |
| Experience | EnterpriseDB employs the most core PostgreSQL team members and developers of any company, including Bruce Momjian, Dave Page, Heikki Linnakangas, Pavan Deolasee and Korry Douglas. Many of the new features in PostgreSQL 8.3, including key performance enhancements (such as HOT) were developed by EnterpriseDB. | |
| Contact information | Technical Support: support@enterprisedb.com +1-732-331-1320 1-800-235-5891 (US Only) Sales Inquiries: sales-us@enterprisedb.com (US) sales-intl@enterprisedb.com (Intl) +1-732-331-1315 +1-877-377-4352 General Inquiries: info@enterprisedb.com +1-732-331-1300 General Inquiries (APAC): info.asiapacific@enterprisedb.com General Inquiries (EMEA): info.emea@enterprisedb.com Media Inquiries: press@enterprisedb.com +1-408-275-6488 |
| Name | Figure8 Information Studio (http://www.figure8.co.za) | |
| Description | Figure8 Information Studio is an open source company combines the Geographical Information System(GIS) technology and Information Technology(IT) to provide a complete range of affordable business solutions from consulting, desktop support, scalable network resources, centralized file-system services, client /server applications, integrated communications services and user training to database-driven web-based applications, custom web site design, e-commerce, integrated web development for all our clientelle needs. | |
| Number of employees | 5 | |
| Office locations | East London ( South Africa ) | |
| Languages | English | |
| Contact information | East London South Africa Tel: +27739776951 Fax : +27866905516 email: info@figure8.co.za http://www.figure8.co.za |
| Name | Kieser Consultancy Limited (http://www.kieser.net) | |
| Provides | Provides both support and hosting. | |
| Description | We are a mature, stable and well funded company. We have established, long term clients and a stable revenue base. Our knowledge is based in high end, enterprise environments. We specialise in developing and hosting bespoke database web applications. We also provide both onsite and offsite consultancy and Postgres support services. We can deliver the full product stack from requirements planning to deployment, hosting and maintenance including preconfigured hardware. We develop in Ruby on Rails, Java, PLPgSQL or PHP. Our unique skill is bringing creativity and innovative ideas to our clients while converting commercial requirements into technical deliverables. Our hosting is 100% OpenSource, based on Linux with a 100% telecoms SLA and full management and support of your Postgres database(s). If you are looking for a thorough-bred, 100% OpenSource, reliable service provider with a proven track record and a passion for technology, you just found it! | |
| Number of employees | 9 | |
| Office locations | Carlisle (UK), London (UK), Johannesburg (South Africa) | |
| Hours | 8:30 - 19:00 | |
| Languages | English | |
| Customer example | Alcatel J P Morgan O2 Virgin (V2 music) IDR General Electric Deutsche Bank La Redoute Fotorama | |
| Experience | 12 years Postgres 16 years Ingres 4 years Oracle 16 years Linux PHP: Since Rasmus first released it. Ruby on Rails: Since David first released it. Java: Since Sun first released it. | |
| Contact information | Email web@kieser.net |
| Name | Metatron Technology Consulting (http://www.metatrontech.com/) | |
| Description | Software Development, Training, and Technical Writing on PostgreSQL and line of business applications (LedgerSMB in particular). | |
| Number of employees | 3 | |
| Languages | English | |
| Customer example | 1: Authored technical documentation for Microsoft on running PostgreSQL on Windows. 2: Fortune 500 company wished to develop open source configurations to sell package with their projects. Provided training to a mixed group of engineers and marketing personnel on open source accounting and CRM software. 3: Mid-sized financial services business needed financial accounting software. We implemented a solution for them based on LedgerSMB and trained database administrators familiar with MySQL on the use and administration of PostgreSQL databases. | |
| Experience | Our team has 12 years experience with managing and developing for PostgreSQL. We are deeply involved in the development of LedgerSMB and contribute to other open source projects as well. |
| Name | Sun Microsystems (http://www.sun.com/postgresql) | |
| Description | Sun Microsystems provides uptime support, including 24x7 enterprise support, for PostgreSQL 8.1 and above running on Solaris 10. | |
| Number of employees | 30,000 | |
| Office locations | Worldwide | |
| Hours | 24x7 | |
| Languages | English, Czech, French, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, more. | |
| Contact information | See http://www.sun.com/service/contacting/solution.html for sales contacts in your area, or request support through the Sun PostgreSQL page: http://www.sun.com/postgresql |
| Name | Unisys Corporation (http://www.unisys.com) | |
| Description | Unisys is a worldwide information technology services and solutions company. It provides Open Source support services, consulting, systems integration, outsourcing and infrastructure services, combined with ppowerful enterprise server technology. Unisys specializes in helping clients use information to create efficient, secure business operations that allow them to achieve their business goals. Unisys consultants, and industry experts work with clients to understand their business challenges and create greater visibility into critical linkages throughout their operations. Unisys has deep focus on testing, optimization and maintenance of mission-critical, enterprise-class solutions leveraging Open Source, worldwide enterprise-class support for Open Source Software including PostgreSQL. | |
| Office locations | Unisys Way, Blue Bell, PA, 19424 USA (offices worldwide) | |
| Hours | 24/7 | |
| Languages | English | |
| Experience | The Unisys Open Support Services helps PostgreSQL clients leverage the significant benefits of open source and open standards without compromising enteprise characteristics such as security, reliability, and performance. | |
| Contact information | 1 215 986 4011 (USA corporate office) |
| Name | Zwartberg Research & Development (http://www.zwartberg.com/hosting.html) | |
| Provides | Provides both support and hosting. | |
| Description | We offer a range of hosting options, from entry level to clustered, including dedicated Postgresql databases. These services are fully managed with rotating backup. We also offer The Karoo Project (for accelerated application development) for free. | |
| Number of employees | 4 | |
| Office locations | South Africa | |
| Hours | Daylight hours in South Africa | |
| Languages | English | |
| Customer example | http://www.deniseohlson.co.za/ | |
| Experience | 20+ years | |
| Contact information | Land line: +27 23 5411 462 Mobile: +27 79 69 77 082 5 Jan Louw Str, Prince Albert, 6930 Postal: P.O. Box 2, Prince Albert 6930 South Africa |