More PostgreSQL in the French Administration

Hey guys,

Here's an article published yesterday (French only):
http://www.silicon.fr/logiciels-libres-secteur-public-aller-plus-loin-115810.html

This article is written by Jacques Marzin, the director of the DISIC,
the national agency in charge of IT for every ministry. To over-simplify
it,  he's the CTO of the French public administration.

His article is about how the French administration moves to open source
software. And guess which software is given as a prime example :

"D’où le second défi, qui touche au partage de compétences. L’équipe de
pilotage du SILL est d’ailleurs pleinement investie de
cette problématique puisqu’elle publie désormais des guides
d’accompagnement basés sur des retours d’expérience. Le premier concerne
la migration vers le logiciel de gestion de bases de données Postgres."

Which can be roughly translated as :

"The second challenge is about sharing the knowledge. The SILL team is
totally focused on that question. The team now publishes guides based on
real uses cases. The first guide is about how to migrate to Postgres."


This article is a follow-up to the release of the "SILL 2015" document,
a "Free Software Technical Platform" (Socle Interministériel Logiciel
Libre in French) which is basically a big list of all the open source
projects that are recommended for every specific usage an agency could
have.

http://references.modernisation.gouv.fr/socle-logiciels-libres
https://references.modernisation.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/SILL-2015-socle-interministeriel-logiciels-libres.pdf

As always, in the "production database" category, PostgreSQL is the one
and only recommendation. PostGIS is the recommendation for "GIS
production database".

The main change in the 2015 version is that MySQL/MariaDB have now
completely disappeared from the document.