Re: one for our brag page

On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 11:51:30PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > > > Safeway -- "A retail environment across 3000 servers for business
> > > > critical applications."
> > > >
> > > > Can someone list Safeway on the Featured User Pages?
> > > >
> > > > I eked out a one liner description that is OK with Safeway. It
> > > > would be nice to have a short description of the usage of
> > PostgreSQL
> > > > on the featured user pages so that we know a bit of what all of
> > > > these companies are using postgres for.
> > >
> > > So what are they using PG for (beyond the fuzzy business critical
> > > applications)?
> > >
> >
> > That is the public description of what we are doing. I
> > cannot disclose the details other than we are also using
> > slony. You are supposed to say "oooh! 3000 servers" and
> > forget to ask for details :)
>
> Well ,for the website we now pretty much have a plain listing (just the
> company name), a case study (but it doesn't seem they're ready for that,
> right?) or a quote (listed on a page and randomly rotated to the
> frontpage). Any chance you can get such a quote out of somebody who
> works there, that we can stick in the archive?
>
> (I've added them to the plain list)
>
> I'd certainly not mind seeing a more complete description for each
> company, but it'll certainly look weird if we add it for just one of
> them...

I'm of the opinion that if we have a short description we should add it.
It will encourage others to have them too.

>
> //Magnus
>

--elein
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