Re: Success stories of PostgreSQL implementations in different companies

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Steve Crawford <
scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com> wrote:

> On 05/23/2013 02:36 PM, Oscar Calderon wrote:
>
>> Hi, this question isn't technical, but is very important for me to know.
>> Currently, here in El Salvador our company brings PostgreSQL support, but
>> Oracle and SQL Server are more popular here.
>>
>> Even with that, some clients are being encouraged to change to PostgreSQL
>> to lower their companies costs in technologies, but very often they ask if
>> there are success stories of PostgreSQL implementations in companies in our
>> region or around the world, success stories (if is possible) with some
>> information like number of concurrent users, some hardware specs or storage
>> size.
>>
>> I think that in my country is more common to hear success stories like
>> that about other databases like Oracle because is more expanded here, but i
>> would like if there's a place or if you can share with me some real
>> experiences or success stories that you ever heard of successful
>> implementations of PostgreSQL in companies to talk with people when they
>> ask that kind of things.
>>
>> Start with the web-site - especially:
> http://www.postgresql.org/**about/users/<http://www.postgresql.org/about/users/>
> http://www.postgresql.org/**about/quotesarchive/<http://www.postgresql.org/about/quotesarchive/>
>
> I don't know about name-recognition in El Salvador but Etsy, Wisconsin
> Courts, Skype, Affilias, FlightAware, NTT are quite recognizable here.
>
>
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