Re: [GENERAL] Request for reference sites

Hi Julian,

This is definitely most welcome. :)

The very best mailing list that you can ask for assistance with this is
the PostgreSQL "Advocacy and Marketing" mailing list. To subscribe to
it all you need to do is send an email to "majordomo(at)postgresql(dot)org"
with the words "subscribe pgsql-advocacy" as the message content.

Afilias/LibertyRMS (the people running the .info domain name registry on
PostgreSQL) are probably a good contact point for this kind of case
study too.

:-)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

Julian Satchell wrote:
>
> Dear postgres users,
>
> I hope you will excuse me asking for a volunteer or volunteers to take
> part as a reference site for a case study on experiences (both positive
> and negative) converting from proprietary to Open Source products. If
> you are interested in participating, please contact me off list.
>
> The study has been asked for by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC),
> which co-ordinates procurement for the UK Government. The OGC is part of
> the Treasury.
>
> Following the publication of the new UK Open Source policy (I was one of
> the authors of the report that formed the main input into the policy),
> the OGC are seeking some case studies on the experiences of adopters of
> Open Source products. We are currently seeking sites that would be
> willing to be involved. Involvement will take the form of a structured
> questionnaire, probably supplemented by a telephone interview.
>
> Case studies based on large organizations or businesses would be
> particularly compelling. The OGC stipulate that the case studies should
> be original research, not based on previously published studies.
>
> Julian
>
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