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 15C7A9DCB88 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:48:24 -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 68963-05-2 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:48:22 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from uproxy.gmail.com (uproxy.gmail.com [66.249.92.202]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C969B9DC94A for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:48:19 -0400 (AST) Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s2so751896uge for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:48:17 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=SI+69jgAMESBubA1CVcF9mY96VkkzlN86ZxGMRvXMAq1QfLM0Qzw6Wt27oDIbhjWOYeEyDCBMpdE9wZ+HhjjfZ7ix+jqckAPPHMfGeKbUkEg3YHCrl8NxJfOFkjCbNN7ttQ9KiuZJhodVSGYwNJC9VucQBClfSEY5iZEN+612W0= Received: by 10.66.254.4 with SMTP id b4mr1235760ugi; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:48:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.67.27.10 with HTTP; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:48:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:48:17 +0000 From: "Guido Barosio" To: "David Fetter" Subject: Re: Making the "Prominent Users" section easier to reach Cc: "Magnus Hagander" , "Josh Berkus" , pgsql-www@postgresql.org, "Marc G. Fournier" In-Reply-To: <20060314163149.GA28489@fetter.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCEA3511F@algol.sollentuna.se> <20060314163149.GA28489@fetter.org> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.225 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.225] X-Spam-Score: 0.225 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200603/80 X-Sequence-Number: 9670 What about "Featured Users"? featured adj 1: made a feature or highlight; given prominence; "a featured actor"; "a featured item at the sale" Actually, linking from the top bar wouldn't be a bad idea, as per the case studies, for those who already have one, would be reachable from that site, were the feature star will be postgresql, as the study object. Regards, Guido Barosio On 3/14/06, David Fetter wrote: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 10:10:49AM +0000, Guido Barosio wrote: > > Did a smallquicksimple research: > > > > - MySQL seems to call it "Customers": > > > > http://www.mysql.com/customers/ > > > > note: on the top bar, 1 click away from the home page. > > PGDG doesn't really have "customers" in the sense that a unified > commercial entity like MySQL AB does. I've been making my living from > PostgreSQL almost all of this century, but most of these outfits have > never been my "customers." > > > - Firebird doesn't seems to serve the page on their main site, but > > on ibphoenix under the "Firebird Users" name: > > > > http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=3Dibphoenix&s=3D1142330367:630751&p= age=3Dibp_users_firebird > > > > note: not on their sourceforge home page, but on the foundation > > site, not easy to access. > > Has anybody heard of any of these outfits? > > > - SQLite, couldn't find any information, even googling. > > Not a giant surprise. SQLite is in the public domain, and their M.O. > is more stealthy. They're what I recommend when people ask about an > embedded SQL system :) > > How about a prominent link on the front page that says something like, > > Here are some organizations that use PostgreSQL. > > I know it's wordy, but it gets the point across that this is a display > and not a help desk, blog, doc set... > > Cheers, > D > -- > David Fetter david@fetter.org http://fetter.org/ > phone: +1 415 235 3778 > > Remember to vote! > -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign . \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail . X - NO Word docs in e-mail . / \ -----------------------------------------------------------------