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The support pages on postgresql.org

От
Ron Mayer
Дата:
A couple questions about the North America support page
on postgresql.org.

* Is there any reason why Sun is not on the North America support
  page [1].  It seems from the Nov 2005 press release [2] that
  they do provide support.  Did they stop doing this?  If they
  still do, can we ask someone from Sun to get themselves added
  to this page.

* Fujitsu is listed in the Oceania page [3] and Asia page [5].
  Considering their large international presence -- they alone
  almost certainly have a bigger IT support staff in North
  America than all the organizations listed on the North
  America page[1] -- would it be reasonable to list them
  on all the continent's support pages?

* Does Red Hat or any of the other big Linux distributors
  provide postgresql support in North America?    Could
  they be added to the North America support page[1]?

I ask mainly because if your average CxO reads the
current North America support page he probably won't
recognize anyone there.   I realize the page just gets
populated by companies who submit themselves using the
from [4] - but it seems it'd make postgresql quite a bit
more impressive to naive customers if they saw that support
is available in North America from some of the big companies.
If people agree, could someone from advocacy try to round up
some of those big companies to submit themselves.


[1] http://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support_northamerica
[2] http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-11/sunflash.20051117.1.xml
[3] http://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support_oceania
[4] http://www.postgresql.org/support/newprof
[5] http://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support_asia

Re: The support pages on postgresql.org

От
"Joshua D. Drake"
Дата:
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 10:04 -0800, Ron Mayer wrote:
> A couple questions about the North America support page
> on postgresql.org.
>
> * Is there any reason why Sun is not on the North America support
>   page [1].  It seems from the Nov 2005 press release [2] that
>   they do provide support.  Did they stop doing this?  If they
>   still do, can we ask someone from Sun to get themselves added
>   to this page.

Hmm... probably because they didn't ask :).

>
> * Fujitsu is listed in the Oceania page [3] and Asia page [5].
>   Considering their large international presence -- they alone
>   almost certainly have a bigger IT support staff in North
>   America than all the organizations listed on the North
>   America page[1] -- would it be reasonable to list them
>   on all the continent's support pages?

I actually don't think Fujitsu (I could be wrong) supports PostgreSQL in
the US.

>
> * Does Red Hat or any of the other big Linux distributors
>   provide postgresql support in North America?    Could
>   they be added to the North America support page[1]?

Red Hat will support it as part of their distribution. So we would have
to have a big caveat there.


> I ask mainly because if your average CxO reads the
> current North America support page he probably won't
> recognize anyone there.

Yet it doesn't stop them from calling them.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


>   I realize the page just gets
> populated by companies who submit themselves using the
> from [4] - but it seems it'd make postgresql quite a bit
> more impressive to naive customers if they saw that support
> is available in North America from some of the big companies.
> If people agree, could someone from advocacy try to round up
> some of those big companies to submit themselves.
>
>
> [1] http://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support_northamerica
> [2] http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-11/sunflash.20051117.1.xml
> [3] http://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support_oceania
> [4] http://www.postgresql.org/support/newprof
> [5] http://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support_asia
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Re: The support pages on postgresql.org

От
Josh Berkus
Дата:
Ron,

> * Is there any reason why Sun is not on the North America support
>   page [1].  It seems from the Nov 2005 press release [2] that
>   they do provide support.  Did they stop doing this?  If they
>   still do, can we ask someone from Sun to get themselves added
>   to this page.

Ooops, my fault.  Must fix ....

>
> * Fujitsu is listed in the Oceania page [3] and Asia page [5].
>   Considering their large international presence -- they alone
>   almost certainly have a bigger IT support staff in North
>   America than all the organizations listed on the North
>   America page[1] -- would it be reasonable to list them
>   on all the continent's support pages?

No, because Fujitsu is ONLY offering PostgreSQL support in Oceania and
Asia.  You cannot buy support in the US.

> * Does Red Hat or any of the other big Linux distributors
>   provide postgresql support in North America?    Could
>   they be added to the North America support page[1]?

Well, RH only sells PostgreSQL support in association with their JBOSS
stack.  However, it's high time that I make an official marketing
contact at RH, so this is a call for me to do so.

Thanks so much for being a watchdog on this!

--Josh

Re: The support pages on postgresql.org

От
"Liam O'Duibhir"
Дата:
G'day,

Support for PostgreSQL from Fujitsu in North America is definitely on our
roadmap for the future. We have enough going on in Australia (and SE Asia)
to keep us busy at the moment and further develop our PostgreSQL programme.
At the appropriate time, we will extend the reach of our support offering.

Looking forward to the release 8.2. Interesting times ahead...

Regards,

Liam.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-advocacy-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-advocacy-
> owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Josh Berkus
> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 7:05 AM
> To: Ron Mayer
> Cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] The support pages on postgresql.org
>
> Ron,
>
> > * Is there any reason why Sun is not on the North America support
> >   page [1].  It seems from the Nov 2005 press release [2] that
> >   they do provide support.  Did they stop doing this?  If they
> >   still do, can we ask someone from Sun to get themselves added
> >   to this page.
>
> Ooops, my fault.  Must fix ....
>
> >
> > * Fujitsu is listed in the Oceania page [3] and Asia page [5].
> >   Considering their large international presence -- they alone
> >   almost certainly have a bigger IT support staff in North
> >   America than all the organizations listed on the North
> >   America page[1] -- would it be reasonable to list them
> >   on all the continent's support pages?
>
> No, because Fujitsu is ONLY offering PostgreSQL support in Oceania and
> Asia.  You cannot buy support in the US.
>
> > * Does Red Hat or any of the other big Linux distributors
> >   provide postgresql support in North America?    Could
> >   they be added to the North America support page[1]?
>
> Well, RH only sells PostgreSQL support in association with their JBOSS
> stack.  However, it's high time that I make an official marketing
> contact at RH, so this is a call for me to do so.
>
> Thanks so much for being a watchdog on this!
>
> --Josh
>
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