Re: Postgres and/or Access, Oh My!

Bret Fledderjohn wrote:
> I've got a meeting with a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania based non-profit to
> talk about a creating a very light warehouse management system.  This
> will be a meeting to determine the scope of work, but initially they
> were asking for an Access solution.  When I get in there (and after I
> figure out the scale of the project), I am anticipating offering a
> Postgres backend solution, contigent on their needs and the software
> they are currently using.
>
> This is a small organization that services the sight impaired and blind
> of south central Pennsylvania.  This particular aspect of the
> organization employs the sight impaired and is a type of third party
> logistics.  The organization receives product,  do some light assembly
> of sample packets, and ship it out for a manufacturer in the area who is
> asking for more and more detailed data.
>
> If anyone has done nonprofit work with Postgres, I'd appreciate any
> references/case studies/etc. to add to the credibility of Postgres to an
> nonprofit organization that is currently owned by Microsoft.

For profit, not-for-profit is about tax accounting.  I think you need an
accounting package that handles light to medium manufacturing --
LedgerSMB -- which uses PostgreSQL for it's database.  Oh yeah, it is FOSS.


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Rod
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> Regardless, if this comes through, is there a repository for case
> studies, or links to case studies, success stories, etc?  I'd really
> like to help advocacy, and if this works out the way I think it will,
> this seems like a good way.
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Bret