Re: What popular, large commercial websites run PostgreSQL?

sourceforge.net runs on PostgreSQL (or at least it did ~8 months ago; this
might have changed)


Joel BURTON | joel@joelburton.com | joelburton.com | aim: wjoelburton
Knowledge Management & Technology Consultant

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Fran Fabrizio
> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 9:35 AM
> To: rich@annexia.org
> Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] What popular, large commercial websites run
> PostgreSQL?
>
>
>
>  > which run PostgreSQL as their main database server. Is there any
> webpage or
>  > other resource which lists PSQL-backed sites, or can anyone name any
> sites
>  > running PSQL for me?
>
> Rich,
>
> I asked essentially this same question a few weeks back (and I'm one of
> a long line of people who've asked the same question if you search the
> archives. =)
>
> The bottom line (and people will disagree with me but I just spent the
> better part of a day trying to answer this question) is that you will
> not find a good source of this information.
>
> People will refer you to the user gallery at pgsql.com.  I will tell you
> right now it's not only quite out of date, but does not contain the
> kinds of projects that management would recognize.  (This is not to say
> the user gallery is a bad idea - I commend the folks who set it up.  But
> it relies on users to provide accurate and current data, and that's not
> happening.)
>
> The best I came up with is that the .info registry is run off of a Pg
> database (I believe there's a post or two about it in the archives, they
> had some fairly impressive stats).  Other than that, there's really not
> much in the way of large commercial companies using Pg that are willing
> to advertise that fact.
>
> I also found the tinyest of blurbs that intimated that Verizon Wireless
> used Pg on a project and presented a talk about it at an open source
> database conference in the fall, but I was unable to find any followup
> information.
>
> Finally, there's a project in the state of Texas involving all non-rural
> inpatient hospital records.  You'll also be able to read more about that
> in the archives because it was discussed here.
>
> That's not much and didn't go very far in exciting my management but
> that's all I could come up with.  It's quite possible that either it's
> not being used by many large commercial corporations (at least in the
> US) or that those corporations are not going to admit that for whatever
> stigma they feel is associated with using open source software.
>
> It's a shame, but what can we do?  If you have better luck please let me
> know.
>
> -Fran
>
>
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