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From: Robert Bernier <[email protected]>
To: Ron Mayer <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: PostgreSQL WWW Mailing List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL rebranding
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:06:26 -0400
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Would it be possible to set up a page on the postgres site that would allow 
people to submit examples of rebranding?



On Wednesday 30 August 2006 10:54, elein wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 02:50:31AM -0700, Ron Mayer wrote:
> > Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:
> > > I am collecting a list of PostgreSQL rebrands.
> > >
> > > So far I have the following:
> > >
> > > Illustra, EnterpriseDB, Bizgres, BizgresMPP, Mammoth, Red Hat Database,
> > > Netezza, parACCEL
> >
> > Sun's "Thumper" [1] arguably counts at least as much as Netezza does,
> > in that they're both hardware appliances derived more or less from
> > PostgreSQL.
>
> Don't count hardware appliances that use postgres.  There are a several
> that I know about and probably a lot more.  You won't get them all.
>
> --elein
> [email protected]
>
> > And not sure if you'd count domain specific apps built on postgresql
> > like Cisco's CSR / Carrier-Sensitive Routing product[2].  If you
> > count that there are probably dozens of similar products that are
> > built on top of a bundled postgresql.
> >
> > Fujitsu's FSP (Fujitsu Supported PostgreSQL) [3] should probably be
> > added to your list.   This one's a useful one to remember when you
> > encounter a pointy-haired boss that wants support from a large
> > company - you wouldn't want to trust your business to a database that's
> > only supported by little companies like Oracle, would you? :-)
> > I think like Netezza they heavily modified postgresql; in this case
> > with their own storage manager.
> >
> >
> > [1]http://www.techworld.com/storage/features/index.cfm?featureid=2738
> > [2]http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/voice/csr/usergd/ver1_
> >1/csrover.pdf [3]http://www.fastware.com/postgresql.html
> >
> > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
> > TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
>
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