Re: white paper.

Hello,

Gavin Sherry and I worked on a white paper presenting the 'Business case for
PostgreSQL' in the past but for various reasons we haven't quite finished
it.

In reading the thread from some weeks ago (initiated by Michael Dean on the
15th of June) regarding suitable white papers promoting PostgreSQL, we
decided to see if our document could become something of broader interest to
the community. With Gavin's assistance we have pulled out specific Fujitsu
marketing material from it and checked it into the press project on
pgfoundry. However, from Fujitsu's perspective, we would like to retain
credit as being the originators of the document

You can read it here:
http://cvs.pgfoundry.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/press/pr/whitepapers/business_case/whitepaper.tex?rev=1.1&content-type=text/plain

The document is made for white paper readers -- managers -- so is lighter on
technical detail and more focussed on issues we think this audience is
interested in.

Obviously, it still needs work, in particular, some graphical representation
of the concepts, improved layout and more detail on success stories people
have had with PostgreSQL.

If you're interested in working on it, email myself or Gavin off list and we
can coordinate it.

Our goal would be that people throughout the community could use the
document to persuade a more business-focussed audience of the advantages of
opting to use PostgreSQL.

All feedback, negative or positive, welcome.

Regards,

Liam O'Duibhir

_____________________________________________

Liam O'Duibhir - Product Manager - Open Source Software

Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

14 Rodborough Road, Frenchs Forest NSW 2086

Tel: (61-2) 9452 9068 Fax: (61-2) 9975 3779

Mob: 0423 025 852 Email: LiamOD(at)fast(dot)fujitsu(dot)com(dot)au

http://fastware.com.au/postgresql.html

Liam O'Duibhir wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
>
> Gavin Sherry and I worked on a white paper presenting the 'Business
> case for PostgreSQL' in the past but for various reasons we haven't
> quite finished it.
>
>
>
> In reading the thread from some weeks ago (initiated by Michael Dean
> on the 15th of June) regarding suitable white papers promoting
> PostgreSQL, we decided to see if our document could become something
> of broader interest to the community. With Gavin's assistance we have
> pulled out specific Fujitsu marketing material from it and checked it
> into the press project on pgfoundry. However, from Fujitsu's
> perspective, we would like to retain credit as being the originators
> of the document
>
>
>
> You can read it here:
> http://cvs.pgfoundry.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/press/pr/whitepapers/business_case/whitepaper.tex?rev=1.1&content-type=text/plain
> <http://cvs.pgfoundry.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/press/pr/whitepapers/business_case/whitepaper.tex?rev=1.1&content-type=text/plain>
>
>
>
> The document is made for white paper readers -- managers -- so is
> lighter on technical detail and more focussed on issues we think this
> audience is interested in.
>
>
>
> Obviously, it still needs work, in particular, some graphical
> representation of the concepts, improved layout and more detail on
> success stories people have had with PostgreSQL.
>
>
>
> If you're interested in working on it, email myself or Gavin off list
> and we can coordinate it.
>
>
>
> Our goal would be that people throughout the community could use the
> document to persuade a more business-focussed audience of the
> advantages of opting to use PostgreSQL.
>
>
>
> All feedback, negative or positive, welcome.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Liam O'Duibhir
>
>
>
> _____________________________________________
>
> Liam O'Duibhir - Product Manager - Open Source Software
>
> Fujitsu Australia Software Technology
>
> 14 Rodborough Road, Frenchs Forest NSW 2086
>
> Tel: (61-2) 9452 9068 Fax: (61-2) 9975 3779
>
> Mob: 0423 025 852 Email: LiamOD(at)fast(dot)fujitsu(dot)com(dot)au
> <mailto:LiamOD(at)fast(dot)fujitsu(dot)com(dot)au>
>
> http://fastware.com.au/postgresql.html
>
>
>
I applaude this real effort. Michael

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Not to be too much of a whiner but has anyone reformatted this to have
less of TeX/LaTeX look ( narrower margins mostly ) and possibly got it
into a pdf format.
Too many years away from TeX/LaTeX ( though I love them ) to do it
easily myself.

TIA,
Rod
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Liam O'Duibhir wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> Gavin Sherry and I worked on a white paper presenting the 'Business case
> for PostgreSQL' in the past but for various reasons we haven't quite
> finished it.
>
>
>
> In reading the thread from some weeks ago (initiated by Michael Dean on
> the 15th of June) regarding suitable white papers promoting PostgreSQL,
> we decided to see if our document could become something of broader
> interest to the community. With Gavin's assistance we have pulled out
> specific Fujitsu marketing material from it and checked it into the
> press project on pgfoundry. However, from Fujitsu's perspective, we
> would like to retain credit as being the originators of the document
>
>
>
> You can read it here:
> http://cvs.pgfoundry.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/press/pr/whitepapers/business_case/whitepaper.tex?rev=1.1&content-type=text/plain
> <http://cvs.pgfoundry.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/press/pr/whitepapers/business_case/whitepaper.tex?rev=1.1&content-type=text/plain>
>
>
>
> The document is made for white paper readers -- managers -- so is
> lighter on technical detail and more focussed on issues we think this
> audience is interested in.
>
>
>
> Obviously, it still needs work, in particular, some graphical
> representation of the concepts, improved layout and more detail on
> success stories people have had with PostgreSQL.
>
>
>
> If you're interested in working on it, email myself or Gavin off list
> and we can coordinate it.
>
>
>
> Our goal would be that people throughout the community could use the
> document to persuade a more business-focussed audience of the advantages
> of opting to use PostgreSQL.
>
>
>
> All feedback, negative or positive, welcome.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Liam O'Duibhir
>
>
>
> _____________________________________________
>
> Liam O'Duibhir - Product Manager - Open Source Software
>
> Fujitsu Australia Software Technology
>
> 14 Rodborough Road, Frenchs Forest NSW 2086
>
> Tel: (61-2) 9452 9068 Fax: (61-2) 9975 3779
>
> Mob: 0423 025 852 Email: LiamOD(at)fast(dot)fujitsu(dot)com(dot)au
> <mailto:LiamOD(at)fast(dot)fujitsu(dot)com(dot)au>
>
> http://fastware.com.au/postgresql.html
>
>
>