I had a great time again at OSCON, and feel more energized than ever about Postgres. Because I
attend OSCON every year, it is a great event to gauge changes in Postgres adoption and mindshare. Years ago, Postgres visibility at OSCON
was minimal, but now Postgres is a major player at the conference. For example, our booth this year was no longer in the open source
section (A.K.A. the open source ghetto), but in the section with commercial vendors. We had abundant booth staffing, thanks to Gabrielle,
and artistically designed staff t-shirts (image),
thanks to Josh Berkus. I think we were moved to the commercial section because our booth staff and activity often overwhelm smaller
booths.
The conference had major tutorials (1,
2) and sessions about Postgres, and Postgres as often mentioned in
non-database-specific sessions, including the closing session. I heard one non-database session polled the audience about how many
attendees had lost data on specific databases — obviously we did very well in that poll.
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I’ll be in open source training next week. So I told myself I should browse around the web and have a little review on what I’m up into. Thanks for this post.