X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 032029DCAB3 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:10:02 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 27036-03 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:10:02 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from linuxworld.com.au (unknown [203.34.46.50]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B72839DCACE for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:09:58 -0400 (AST) Received: from linuxworld.com.au (IDENT:swm@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by linuxworld.com.au (8.13.2/8.13.2) with ESMTP id jATL9xTs023296; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:09:59 +1100 Received: from localhost (swm@localhost) by linuxworld.com.au (8.13.2/8.13.2/Submit) with ESMTP id jATL9xef023293; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:09:59 +1100 X-Authentication-Warning: linuxworld.com.au: swm owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:09:59 +1100 (EST) From: Gavin Sherry X-X-Sender: swm@linuxworld.com.au To: Robert Treat cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Case study: Proximity In-Reply-To: <200511291547.16993.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: References: <200511291547.16993.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 required=5 tests=[none] X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200511/191 X-Sequence-Number: 8906 On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Robert Treat wrote: > On Tuesday 22 November 2005 17:18, Gavin Sherry wrote: > > I tried sending this in earlier -- but it doesn't seem to have gotten > > through. > > > > Following is a case study written by myself and laid out by Omar and > > Emily. > > > > http://www.alcove.com.au/~swm/Proximity10.pdf > > > > There are some great quotes for the site in this. > > > > Do we have permission to add quotes to the front page? I'd like to add Yes. > > "We consider the availability of source code a major advantage of using an > open source database. We haven't had to go a fix any bugs ourselves, but we > have peered at the source to satisfy ourselves as to how things work" -- > Tim Allen, Senior Software Developer, Proximity Group. > There are other good quotes: "Our systems are deployed in high-availability environments and the combination of PostgreSQL on Linux has enabled us to deploy and support systems without any need for a large support team." > > Also I would like to add dates to the case studies descriptions on the site > unless there are any objections. I think the PDF itself should be dated too. I'll talk to Omar. Thanks, Gavin