Re: The support pages on postgresql.org

On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 10:04 -0800, Ron Mayer wrote:
> A couple questions about the North America support page
> on postgresql.org.
>
> * Is there any reason why Sun is not on the North America support
> page [1]. It seems from the Nov 2005 press release [2] that
> they do provide support. Did they stop doing this? If they
> still do, can we ask someone from Sun to get themselves added
> to this page.

Hmm... probably because they didn't ask :).

>
> * Fujitsu is listed in the Oceania page [3] and Asia page [5].
> Considering their large international presence -- they alone
> almost certainly have a bigger IT support staff in North
> America than all the organizations listed on the North
> America page[1] -- would it be reasonable to list them
> on all the continent's support pages?

I actually don't think Fujitsu (I could be wrong) supports PostgreSQL in
the US.

>
> * Does Red Hat or any of the other big Linux distributors
> provide postgresql support in North America? Could
> they be added to the North America support page[1]?

Red Hat will support it as part of their distribution. So we would have
to have a big caveat there.

> I ask mainly because if your average CxO reads the
> current North America support page he probably won't
> recognize anyone there.

Yet it doesn't stop them from calling them.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

> I realize the page just gets
> populated by companies who submit themselves using the
> from [4] - but it seems it'd make postgresql quite a bit
> more impressive to naive customers if they saw that support
> is available in North America from some of the big companies.
> If people agree, could someone from advocacy try to round up
> some of those big companies to submit themselves.
>
>
> [1] http://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support_northamerica
> [2] http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-11/sunflash.20051117.1.xml
> [3] http://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support_oceania
> [4] http://www.postgresql.org/support/newprof
> [5] http://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support_asia
>
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