Re: white paper.

Liam O'Duibhir wrote:

> Hello,
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>
>
> 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.
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> 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
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>
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> 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>
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> If you're interested in working on it, email myself or Gavin off list
> and we can coordinate it.
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> 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.
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>
> All feedback, negative or positive, welcome.
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> Regards,
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> Liam O'Duibhir
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I applaude this real effort. Michael

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