I remember there was a fair bit of tossing around when that directory got
published.. There was an article on Newsforge(IIRC?) as well.
But that wasn't from pgsql advocacy though..
Josh Berkus wrote:
> Who is it? 'Fess up!
> "While Linux and the Web grew up together, the Linux desktop has also become
> useful for print media. TeX, the typesetting computer language originally
> developed on a DEC minicomputer in 1980, is alive and well on Linux. In
> March, India's largest phone company used TeX and a PostgreSQL database to
> turn out 400,000 copies of the two-volume telephone directory for
> Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala province. The project, which had
> required 50 people and six months' time using conventional print production
> technology, was accomplished in four months by a smaller team using Linux. "
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