Re: An opportunity to prove PostgreSQL and our requirement of Case Study info

http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2002/07/16/drake.html?page=2

I see in there a mention of the American Chemical Society and their database
of over a terabyte. Also there's a mention of BASF, another company that
looks big to me.

And I use postgres and I get great support on this list here, but I don't
think ICANN cares about that :)

And if nothing else, isn't the .info registry itself a good example?

Regards,
    Jeff

On Thursday 12 September 2002 10:28 pm, Justin Clift wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> An interesting development.
>
> Afilias and LibertyRMS, the people who've been happily running the .info
> namespace on PostgreSQL servers, are the technical backend of the ISOC
> application for management of the .org
> namespace.  However, ICANN is asking for more detail about the backend
> database, to
> prove it is an "appropriate choice for a mission critical
> applications".  In particular, ICANN wants proof that other companies
> are using PostgreSQL for Mission Critical things.
>
> The Oracle/DB2/Sybase/etc guys have an advantage here because they
> already have a bunch of case studies prepared and we're only beginning
> to get these together.
>
> Afilias and LibertyRMS are looking to pull as much relevant info
> together as possible and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that
> PostgreSQL is up to the task, in time for their presentation on
> Saturday.
>
> The kind of thing they're after is stuff that executives will be
> interested in.  i.e. Case Studies and examples of other businesses
> running PostgreSQL happily for Mission Critical stuff, under high load,
> and getting support when they need it, etc.
>
> The questions that ICANN have asked are online here:
>
> http://www.icann.org/tlds/org/questions-to-applicants-13.htm
>
> As you can see there is only a 2 day timeframe in which Afilias &
> LibertyRMS can get the info they need together, including today, so
> there's not much time.
>
> The details of the ISOC application itself is online here if anyone is
> interested:
>
> http://www.icann.org/tlds/org/applications/isoc/
>
> A point to make clear is this is not in any way an endorsement of their
> application.  Some of the other places bidding also have significant
> interests in PostgreSQL.  The only thing we're interested in here is
> showing off that PostgreSQL itself is up to the task.
>
> Can people please come forward to help them out with info about the
> reliability and performance of PostgreSQL in Mission Critical
> situations?
>
> :-)
>
> Regards and best wishes,
>
> Justin Clift