Major French companies officially asking sofware vendors to support PostgreSQL

The French PostgreSQL Cross-Enterprise Work Group, a non-profit
organization advocating for the adoption and use of PostgreSQL, just
published an open letter to all software vendors that don’t already do
so to take steps to support PostgreSQL as a database management system
(DBMS).

The ambition of this initiative is to incite them to adapt quickly to
the irresistible IT transformation in progress in public and private
companies.

Created in 2016, the PostgreSQL Cross-Enterprise Work Group ( called
“Groupe de Travail Inter-Entreprise” or “GT Entreprise” in French) is a
dedidacted task force inside the PostgreSQLFr non-profit association
(https://www.postgresql.fr/asso/) Over the last months,it has grown
remarkably.

In a new press release published yesterday, the workgroup sent an open
letter to software vendors asking them officially to support PostgreSQL.

* Original version :
<https://www.postgresql.fr/entreprises/20171206_lettre_ouverte_aux_editeurs_de_logiciels>

* English translation :
<https://www.postgresql.fr/entreprises/english>

This is a major step for PostgreSQL in France and in the french-speaking
countries. For the first time, more than 20 national and international
companies take an explicit stance in favor of PostgreSQL by recognizing
the technical value of the software but also highlighting the benefits
of the open source model itself.

Among these companies and public agencies, you can find :
* Air France,
* Carrefour (retail),
* CASDEN (bank),
* CNES (national space study center),
* EDF,
* MSA / GIE AGORA (mutual insurance),
* E.Leclerc (retail),
* MAIF (mutual insurance),
* Météo France (national weather forecast agency),
* The National Education Ministry,
* PeopleDoc,
* SNCF (national railway company),
* Société Générale (bank)
* Tokheim Services Group

These institutions gathered in the PostgreSQLFr association to share
their experience, promote PostgreSQL and contribute to its development.
 Beyond these 3 big missions, the remarkable point is that the group
organized itself by adopting the great principles of the PostgreSQL
community: openess, mutual help, transparency, self-organization, etc.

To discover the other activities of the group, you can come to the booth
of the PostgreSQL community during the Paris Open Summit 2017 or read
the wiki page of the workgroup :

* Original version: <https://www.postgresql.fr/entreprises/>
* English translation: <https://www.postgresql.fr/entreprises/welcome>

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Damien Clochard