Re: French Prime Minister loves PostgreSQL

On 22 September 2012 12:58, damien clochard <damien@dalibo.info> wrote:
>
> Hipster developpers are not the only one to praise PostgreSQL. The
> French Prime Minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, just sent a letter to every
> agency of the French administration to urge them to use more free software :
>
> http://circulaire.legifrance.gouv.fr/pdf/2012/09/cir_35837.pdf
>
> on page 17, you can read :
>
> « Favoriser la migration des bases propriétaires vers des bases
> libres, en particulier PostgreSQL. »
>
> Which can be translated as :
>
> « Promote the migration from proprietary databases to free databases
> , especially PostgreSQL. »
>
> Can it be any clearer ?
>
> This is not a big surprise for people working in the French PostgreSQL
> community. It's a well known fact that PostgreSQL is making its way into
> the French gouverment agencies and that huge migrations are coming.
>
> However this is the first time we see such an an official statement.
> We've been waiting for it for many years, and this letter overcomes our
> expectations.
>
> I think this letter is a tremendous weapon for anyone trying to advocate
> PostgreSQL to governement agencies around the world. I will try to start
> a translation of the document in wiki, if any other french-speaking guy
> wants to help here, let me know !

Thanks for sharing Damien. Great to see support from the French government.

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Thom