Re: PostgreSQL in Brazil

I speak more:
Brazil is seeing open source project with *very* good eyes, including
PgSQL.
We are working for adoption of PG in many segments of government and
education, making a good base. After this work, the companies will see
this too.

Claudio

Bruce Momjian escreveu:
> If they choose something other than PostgreSQL, they will be back.  :-)
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> elein wrote:
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>>Here is a story.  There is a company in Brazil with about 20,000
>>clients all over Brazil.  They made a decision to move from BTrieve
>>to PostgreSQL.  BTrieve had been supplied by DBExperts.  After a
>>sales pitch to by the owner of DBExperts, the board of directors,
>>have made a subsequent decision to move to Pervasive.SQL.
>>
>>This company has very high visibility.  And I think dbExperts
>>gets around the area of Brazil a lot, too.
>>
>>Oh, the funny part... The sales pitch for Pervasive.SQL included:
>>   * "You install the software and forget it!"
>>   * [ and if you have Btrieve files then ] "...you can access these
>>     files with transactional procedures if you like to."
>>
>>I'm have no idea what to do about the problem, but I know
>>that the (postgresql) person doing the data migration is miserable.
>>
>>As we know, PostgreSQL is big in Brazil.  It is likely DbExperts
>>is shooting themselves in the foot.
>>
>>This is the kind of thing we should know about.  I'm not sure
>>we could provide enough fodder to override the salespitch
>>in a particular case since that pretty much has to be an inside job.
>>
>>The only thing I can think of is to tell the story.
>>People make bad business decisions all the time.
>>
>>elein
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>>elein@varlena.com     Database Consulting     www.varlena.com
>>
>>"Free your mind the rest will follow"
>>                                     -- En Vogue
>>
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