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PostgreSQL vs MySQL @ Oracle NYC Head Quarters NYC (my brain just broke)
Posted Friday Jan 21st, 2011 10:37am
by Joshua Drake
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In my quest to insure an incredible turnout for PostgreSQL Conference, I contacted the MySQL meetup group in NYC. Of course my reasons were simple, I want MySQL people to show up and see the value of PostgreSQL. However, I learned a couple of new things.

I have seen Ed speak on occasion at East and West. He has some interesting (if not so technical points) he makes in the video. I will let you folks analyze it for your own edification. One thing I didn't know was Ed's relationship to the failed Red Hat Database initiative (which makes sense, not the failure but why he is involved in PostgreSQL). The failure of Red Hat Database was simple, they were trying to charge 1995.00 (or was it 2995.00?) for PostgreSQL 7.1. Red Hat Database was based on PostgreSQL and essentially caused the death of Great Bridge (yeah..... how many of you have been around long enough to remember that?). Great Bridge once employed Tom Lane and Bruce Momjian. Red Hat now employs Tom Lane and EnterpriseDB now employs Bruce Momjian. Wrap your heads around that chaos theory.

Of course The PostgreSQL Company has been around longer than any of the other "initiatives" and remains independent, debt and V.C. free. Is this a great time to be alive or what? Let's rock!


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PgEast: 2011, Second call for papers!
Posted Tuesday Jan 18th, 2011 10:47am
by Joshua Drake
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January 18th, 2011: Celebrating 15 years of PostgreSQL, early.

That's right folks, it is time for second call. Content is being submitted steadily. At PgWest last year, we received well over our capacity of content and we would like to keep that trend going.

The PostgreSQL Conference for Developers,End Users and Decision Makers, is being held at the Hotel Pennsylvania,in New York City from March 22nd through 25th 2011. Please join us in continuing to make this the largest PostgreSQL Conference series!

  • PostgreSQL Conference
  • Call for papers

    Thank you to our sponsors:

  • Command Prompt, Inc.
  • EnterpriseDB

    Time line:

    Dec 16th: Talk submission opens
    Feb 10th: Talk submission closes
    Feb 15th: Speaker notification
    This year we will be continuing our trend of covering the entire PostgreSQL ecosystem. We would like to see talks and tutorials on the following topics:

          * General PostgreSQL: 
                  * Administration 
                  * Performance 
                  * High Availability 
                  * Migration 
                  * GIS 
                  * Integration 
                  * Solutions and White Papers 
          * The Stack: 
                  * Python/Django/Pylons/TurboGears/Custom 
                  * Perl5/Catalyst/Bricolage 
                  * Ruby/Rails 
                  * Java (PLJava would be great)/Groovy/Grails 
                  * Operating System optimization
                    (Linux/FBSD/Solaris/Windows) 
                  * Solutions and White Papers 
    


    Categories: Business, OpenSource, PostgreSQL, Python, SQL

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