GITEX, the Gulf Information Technology Exhibition, http://www.gitex.com/ is taking place on November 18-22, 2006 at the World Trade Center Building in Dubai. People interested in articipating in a PostgreSQL presence there, should contact Rajesh (Luckys) Sharma at luckysharma@gmail.com. Rajesh is also starting a Middle East PostgreSQL users' group.
The PostgreSQL Anniversary Summit dates and location information are now posted: http://conference.postgresql.org. The Summit is also looking for corporate sponsors. Please see the Sponsors page http://conference.postgresql.org/Sponsors/ on the site.
Fujitsu is sponsoring a PostgreSQL booth for LinuxWorld Australia 2006
http://www.linuxworldexpo.com.au/ on March 28, 29 and 30 in Sydney.
The booth is C21. Gavin Sherry and Omar Kilani will be handing out
case studies, brochures and giving lots of demonstrations. If people
would like to hand out brochures or just hang out, email Gavin Sherry
at
Commandprompt is now hosting http://search.postgresql.org/
Patch releases for 7.4 through 8.1 are coming soon.
EnterpriseDB Advanced Server 8.1 now Generally Available http://www.enterprisedb.com/news_events/press_releases/03_16_06.do
Navicat PostgreSQL Manager for Mac OS X version 6.1.4 released. http://pgsql.navicat.com/
EMS Data Pump 2006 released. http://www.sqlmanager.net/products/postgresql/dbcomparer/
Pervasive is having a webinar on open source databases in the enterprise on Wednesday, March 22, 2:00 pm EST. http://www.pervasivepostgres.com/postgresql/webinars.asp
Pervasive has opened access to its PostgreSQL knowlege base http://www.pervasivepostgres.com/instantkb13
DBD::Pg 1.46 bug fix release is out. Kudos to Greg Sabino-Mullane for his hard work on it. http://search.cpan.org/~dbdpg/DBD-Pg-1.46/
PostgreSQL 8.1.3 for Zeta 1.x Released Ioan Molnar has ported PostgreSQL 8.1.3 to Zeta 1.x http://www.yellowtab.com/ http://www.yellowtab.com/downloads/files/PostgreSQL-8.1.3.zip
KPoGre 1.3.7 released http://kpogre.sourceforge.net/
Everything this week was global.
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PostgreSQL Weekly News is brought to you this week by David Fetter, John (applejack) Hansen, Gavin (swm) Sherry and Rajesh (Luckys) Sharma.