Re: white paper.

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,
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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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> 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>
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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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