Re: Case study: Proximity

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Robert Treat wrote:

> On Tuesday 22 November 2005 17:18, Gavin Sherry wrote:
> > I tried sending this in earlier -- but it doesn't seem to have gotten
> > through.
> >
> > Following is a case study written by myself and laid out by Omar and
> > Emily.
> >
> > http://www.alcove.com.au/~swm/Proximity10.pdf
> >
> > There are some great quotes for the site in this.
> >
>
> Do we have permission to add quotes to the front page? I'd like to add

Yes.

>
> "We consider the availability of source code a major advantage of using an
> open source database. We haven't had to go a fix any bugs ourselves, but we
> have peered at  the source to satisfy ourselves as to how things work"  --
> Tim Allen, Senior Software Developer, Proximity Group.
>

There are other good quotes:

"Our systems are deployed in high-availability environments and the
combination of PostgreSQL on Linux has enabled us to deploy and support
systems without any need for a large support team."

>
> Also I would like to add dates to the case studies descriptions on the site
> unless there are any objections.

I think the PDF itself should be dated too. I'll talk to Omar.

Thanks,

Gavin