Bitnami Open Source Leaders Interview Series: Matthew Weier O’Phinney for the Zend Framework Project

We recently interviewed Matthew Weier O’Phinney, technical lead for the Zend Framework Project. Zend Framework, a product of Zend Technologies, is an open source web framework implemented in PHP 5. Zend Technologies was founded by two Israeli college students with a love for the PHP language. From humble beginnings to becoming a leading provider of products and services for developers around the world, learn about Zend's history and their aspirations for the future.

Listen and Learn:

• How Zend was originally envisioned 
• Zend Framework's competitors and what they're doing 'right' 
• Predictions surrounding the introduction of Middleware 
• Zend Framework's scalability and relationship with different environments 
• Various release strategies over time 
• How to take part in the community and become a contributor

Interested in learning more about open source frameworks options? Visit our stacks page for available apps and what's in the pipeline!

Stuart Langridge:       These are the Bitnami Open Source Leaders Series of Interviews.  I'm Stuart Langridge, and I'm talking to Matthew Weier O'Phinney, who is technical lead for the Zend Framework Project.  So, the obvious question to start out with here is, who is Zend, and what's the Zend Framework?

Bitnami Open Source Leaders Interview Series: Larry Garfield from Drupal

Bitnami interviewed one of Drupal’s core contributors, Larry Garfield, for an inside look into the future of Drupal. With over 1 million active users it's easy to understand why Drupal is one of our most popular PHP solutions for content management, and why this application keeps evolving.

If you are just getting started or already a big fan of Drupal, this interview will give you some great insight into how Drupal maintains their community and what the future looks like for this application.

In the interview, Larry explains:

• Who uses Drupal 
• How to get involved 
• What new features we should expect 

After learning more about the project, you can launch Drupal to the cloud or deploy it locally with free installers, virtual machines and cloud templates from Bitnami. Get started in the cloud for free with a $200 credit from Microsoft Azure.

Stuart Langridge:       These are the Bitnami Open Source Leaders Series of Interviews.  I'm Stuart Langridge, and I'm talking to Larry Garfield, who's a long-time Drupal core contributor. He's web services initiative lead for Drupal 8 and he's basically the de facto Drupal ambassador to the PHP world. Hi, Larry. Welcome to the podcast.

Larry Garfield:           Hello.

Stuart Langridge:       So the first obvious question is what's Drupal?

Larry Garfield:           Drupal is an open source content management platform written in PHP. It's an enterprise-grade piece of software, and it's been used by large institutions from the White House to MTV to Amnesty International, the king of Belgium and so on, but it also scales down to small nonprofit, small company/corner store type sites and everything in between. It aims to be the CMS for the entire market spectrum with an emphasis on content strategy and content modeling by thinking of the web as more than just a bunch of pages but as content management that you can then expose on the web. That's really where Drupal's strength lies.

Stuart Langridge:       You've named a bunch of organizations that are using Drupal from the very large to the very small. Are you deliberately targeting everyone from the very large to the very small, or are there particular types of organizations that you think Drupal is best for?

Bitnami Open Source Leaders Interview Series: Siobhan McKeown from WordPress

If you want to get started with blogging or website creation, WordPress is a great way to go. WordPress boasts a vibrant community to help you each step of the way, and offers endless amounts of plugins and themes to choose from as well.  That's why we were excited to interview Siobhan McKeown from the WordPress project to find out more about one of our most popular Bitnami Applications.

Watch the interview to:

• Learn how to get started on WordPress with no or limited technical knowledge
• Get advice on choosing a hosted service versus hosting your own WordPress
• Hear what the future looks like for WordPress
• Discover the advantages of joining the WordPress community 

Hear more about the project from Siobhan McKeown and then try it for yourself. Launch WordPress in the cloud or deploy it locally with free installers, virtual machines and cloud templates from Bitnami. Get started in the cloud for free with a $200 credit from Microsoft Azure.

Stuart Langridge:       These are the Bitnami Open Source Leaders series of interviews.  I'm Stuart Langridge, and I'm talking to Siobhan McKeown of the WordPress Project.    

Siobhan McKeown:     Hi Stuart.

Stuart Langridge:       What is WordPress? I suspect that most people listening will have a reasonable idea but it would be useful to hear your description.

Siobhan McKeown:    WordPress’s most basic description is a publishing platform. It uses PHP and MySQL. It started out as a blog platform more than 10 years ago, but over time became more used as a CMS. Now it is used much more as a CMS than as a blog. Also, more recently it's being used as an application framework.

Stuart Langridge:       What's a typical WordPress user like, or is your community so diverse that it's really impossible to say?

Siobhan McKeown:     It's really diverse, and there are so many different types of people using it. The great thing about WordPress is that it's very user friendly and focused. Although it has become more complex over time, it's quite easy for people who aren't technical to use. We do have a lot of people using it here who have no idea what PHP is, but they can use it really well. And then we also have people who are hardcore developers and are doing all sorts of fancy stuff with WordPress. It's hard to pin it down because I think it's more than 23% of the Internet now, so 23% of the Internet is a lot of different types of people. 

Bitnami Open Source Leaders Interview Series: Jan Niggemann from Redmine

If you're tired of sifting through email threads to surface information on project updates, then you'll love the game-changing project management features provided by Redmine. As a continuation of our Open Source Leaders Interview series, we interviewed Redmine Community Relationship Officer, Jan Niggeman, to learn more about the app. The bottom line? Redmine's solution is not only for software development teams, but for any group that needs a way to collaborate for projects both big or small.

In the interview you'll learn:

• What Redmine is and how it's different from other project management tools
• Who should use Redmine and suggested use cases
• Where to find Redmine support 
• What to expect from Redmine in the future 

Known for bug tracking management, Redmine has become a popular option for managing both issues and tasks for multiple projects. The application gives you one central place to create, maintain, and successfully follow all of your projects. Multiple project support, flexible roles, and based access control are among the many tools that will make your team's collaboration efforts easier.

Learn more about the project from Jan Niggeman and then try it for yourself. Launch Redmine to the cloud or deploy it locally with free installers, virtual machines and cloud templates from Bitnami. Get started in the cloud for free with a $200 credit from Microsoft Azure.

Read the full transcript here: 

Stuart Langridge:       These are the Bitnami Open Source Leaders interviews. I'm Stuart Langridge, and I'm talking to Jan Niggemann of Redmine. Jan is the Community Relations Officer for the Redmine project.

Jan Niggemann:          Hi, Stuart.

Stuart Langridge:       So tell us a little bit about what Redmine is.

Jan Niggemann:          Redmine is a web application that may be used for project management and online collaboration. We have focused on integrating different areas of project management to provide a platform that's easy to use for project managers as well as the project staff, so everybody can get together online.

Stuart Langridge:       Which types of organizations are currently using Redmine?

Jan Niggemann:          There are several well-known companies around the world. For example, Citrix, Seagate, and Qualcomm. Of course, there are minor organization and lots of universities around the world, and virtually countless open source projects using it. The projects range from everything in-between software development, like the Audacious Media Player, to manufacturing.  For example, there's a project called LAOS laser that tried to program free software for laser cutting machines.

Stuart Langridge:       Are there particular types of organizations that you would like to see using Redmine, or is the answer everyone in the whole world?

Bitnami Open Source Leaders Interview Series: Isidro Baquero from Joomla!

Joomla! is one of the most popular content management systems, and is used all around the world for many types of websites. Behind the success of this application comes the support of a very large and energetic open source community. Whether you are a novice or a pro, you will find that there is no shortage of plugins and support to help you along the way.

As part of our Open Source Leader podcast series, we interviewed Isidro Baquero, member of the Joomla! community leadership team, to see how Joomla! can help you manage your website.

The questions below are answered throughout the interview:

• How does Joomla! differ from other CMS applications?
• When should you upgrade, and how? 
• What does the future hold for Joomla!? 
• How does one join the Joomla! community, and what skills are needed?

After learning more about the project, you can launch Joomla! to the cloud or deploy it locally with free installers, virtual machines and cloud templates from Bitnami. Get started in the cloud for free with a $200 credit from Microsoft Azure.

Stuart Langridge:       These are the Bitnami Open Source Leaders interviews. I’m Stuart Langridge, and I’m talking to Isidro Baquero, who is from the community leadership team of the Joomla Project.

Isidro Baquero:          Hi Stewart, nice to be here.

Stuart Langridge:       Please tell us a bit about what Joomla is.

Isidro Baquero:          Joomla is an open source project and started out as only a CMS (content management system), but it has grown with time. A couple of years ago, the framework in which the CMS was based got decoupled from the CMA. Now we have two different projects, the CMS and the standalone PHP framework, which can be used to develop any kind of web application. It integrates with Composer, so it can integrate within any other external scripts. 

                                    Like any other modern PHP framework, Joomla is known for the content management system. Although, I always like saying that Joomla is not a CMS, but an open source project. Without its community, Joomla would be nothing because it’s 100 percent community-driven and there is no corporate backing for the project.

Stuart Langridge:       Who is currently using Joomla? Obviously you’ve got a lot of people out there using it, but what types of organizations tend to use Joomla? Are there particular areas where you’d like to see Joomla used more?

Isidro Baquero:          Joomla is suitable for any kind of web application. We’ve seen everything from domestic applications, personal applications, small communities, and even big corporations. For example, Peugeot, the French carmaker has its main site built with Joomla.  We’ve also seen General Electric, for example, having some of their sites built with Joomla.

Bitnami Open Source Leaders Interview Series: Frank Karlitschek from ownCloud

As part of our Open Source Leader podcast series, we interviewed Frank Karlitschek, founder of ownCloud, to learn how ownCloud helps you share your files with friends and co-workers. ownCloud gives you universal access to all your files, contacts, calendars and bookmarks across all of your devices for free!

The questions below are answered throughout the interview:

• What is ownCloud? 
• How technical does one have to be to use ownCloud?
• How does ownCloud manage third-party extensions/plugins?
• What is next for ownCloud version 8? 

After learning more about the project, you can launch ownCloud to the cloud or deploy it locally with free installers, virtual machines and cloud templates from Bitnami. Get started in the cloud for free with a $200 credit from Microsoft Azure.

Stuart Langridge:       These are the Bitnami Open Source Leaders Series of interviews.  I’m Stuart Langridge and I’m here talking to Frank Karlitschek of the ownCloud project.

Frank Karlitschek:     Hey, Stuart. Thanks for having me.

Stuart Langridge:       I think a lot of people may have heard of ownCloud generally, but can you give us a brief description of what ownCloud is and what it’s for?

Frank Karlitschek:     The mission of ownCloud is to provide functionality similar to Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive from Microsoft. The difference is that ownCloud is completely free software, open-source, and it’s actually designed to run wherever you want.

 

                                    There’s only one ownCloud like there is only one Dropbox, but you can download the ownCloud source code and install it wherever you want. You can run it on your repository at home, an old desktop computer, or on a server on the Internet. It can run at a university, your company, or wherever you want. You can even run it on a shared web space. For example, if you have web space on a university, you can just pick the ownCloud Zip file, put it in there and unzip it, and you have your own server.

Stuart Langridge:       What types of people are using ownCloud at the moment? Is it primarily individuals, organizations, companies, or university students? Of the people who aren’t using it yet, are there particular areas/demographics you’re targeting?

Bitnami Open Source Leaders Interview Series: Francisco Mancardi from TestLink

Within one application, TestLink leads the way for software quality assurance by offering all of the tools needed for test plan management. As part of our Open Source Leader podcast series, we interviewed Francisco Mancardi, Project Leader of TestLink, to learn how TestLink helps people manage tests and where they will be going from here.

The topics below are covered in the interview:

• What is TestLink?
• Is TestLink only for software testing?
• Who uses TestLink?
• How can one be involved in the TestLink Community?
• What should we expect from the next versions of TestLink?

After learning more about the project, you can launch TestLink to the cloud or deploy it locally with free installers, virtual machines and cloud templates from Bitnami. Get started in the cloud for free with a $200 credit from Microsoft Azure.

            

Stuart Langridge:       These are the Bitnami Open Source Leaders Series of interviews.  I’m Stuart Langridge and I’m talking to Francisco Mancardi, who is the project leader of the TestLink project.  Hi, Francisco.

Francisco Mancardi:  Hello, how are you?

Stuart Langridge:       It’s all fun and games here. So, tell us a little bit about TestLink.  What is it?

Francisco Mancardi:  TestLink is a test and requirements management application. In an ideal world, testing is pretty straightforward, but normally it doesn’t happen that way. I think that an application like this can improve how people can manage case-testing processes a lot. Testing, in my opinion, is the weakest part of the delivery process. Normally people tend not to use a tool, and try to use spreadsheets. With Testlink, you can describe the artifact you plan to test and describe it’s characteristics.

You can also create requirements, create versions of the artifact you want to test, and get reports as well. TestLink should ideally be used for manual testing. We also offer an API to connect with other systems, which allows TestLink to get results from other systems. However, it is not able to run automatic tests on other systems. Also, TestLink has integrations with the most popular issue-tracker systems such as Jira, Mantis, and Mozilla. That is what TestLink is today, more or less.

Stuart Langridge:       So, TestLink isn’t a system for actually running your tests.  It’s a system to manage which tests should be run, and which tests go with which modules?

Francisco Mancardi:  Yes.

Stuart Langridge:       Interesting.

Francisco Mancardi:  Instead of buying Excel and start typing there, where you have no versioning, you are not able to manage other integration with other systems, you can simply start TestLink in it’s own application, and write as much or as little as you want. Normally, I just write the name of the test and start adding more details if I have time. You aren’t forced to describe a lot of things on your test, and you have the ability to change what you want. Also, you can use it in your Excel versions.

Stuart Langridge:       Obviously the people who mostly use TestLink and test-management software are generally QA, but QA in which areas?  Do you know what type of companies are currently using TestLink, and what kind of companies/organizations you would like to see using TestLink?

Francisco Mancardi:  I have informal data regarding what kind of companies use TestLink. I normally get this information from the channels that we use to communicate with people, such as forums. From this, I can look at the company email to get an idea of which companies are using TestLink. I see people from – I know that people from Philips and Netherlands are using TestLink. Some examples are IT companies, insurance companies, and banks. I supposed they always happen to have a lot of IT. I think that other kinds of activities, like biology test labs, could also use this product. I need to create, in my opinion, some new scales or proof of concepts in order to show more people that they may be able to use TestLink to create these tests.

Stuart Langridge:       TestLink doesn’t have to manage just software tests, it could be any kind of testing at all?

Francisco Mancardi:  Yes, and that is what we are really seeing. Suppose you want to test your car before going on a holiday. The test is primarily, in my opinion, a checklist with certain characteristics of something you want to test. This can be a chair, an oven, or anything that you need to test. The reason you test is to see if it works, and if it does you may need to describe it. For example, you need to test the timer on the oven to make sure it is working as you expect, you could use TestLink for that. There is nothing specific that forces TestLink to be used only for testing software.

                                    If you look to the logo, you can see that it looks like something from a crash testing sight, with the same concept and same colors. The idea for TestLink is that it supports something to test, but not necessary a piece of software. I can describe parts I want to test, how to test it, and record results of my experience for anything.

Stuart Langridge:       If someone has decided to use TestLink and they want to start setting it up, obviously they will need to install TestLink initially. What’s the easiest way to do that, and how much technical knowledge do you need to run TestLink?

Francisco Mancardi:  I think the best thing to do is to get an Installer or Virtual Machine from Bitnami, it is an easy way to start. If you don’t want to do this, you can download from SourceForge. The technical knowledge is, in my opinion, not too high. You need to understand how to change a permission on a file, how to connect using a secret client to a MySQL server, and how to start or stop an Apache server.  But surely if you want to start right away, you should install a Bitnami installer because you get everything you need. You get the database and a web server all in one installer.  

Stuart Langridge:       There are obviously people using TestLink within their organization, and some people will be deploying it to the cloud. Do you expect cloud usage to increase in the future?

Francisco Mancardi:  The cloud will be the future because people do not want to manage this solution on some server. For example, I am always talking about Bitnami because I have had a good experience with them. If you want just to test TestLink, you can launch a server on Bitnami for an hour and without any effort you can test TestLink, or any other of applications that Bitnami is offering. I think the cloud is the way to go if you don’t want to worry about your servers.

Stuart Langridge:       TestLink is a Web-based application. Do you tend to work with mainly modern browsers or mainly with mobile? Are you trying to support old versions of Internet Explorer 6? What do you expect the users of TestLink will be using?

Francisco Mancardi:  I expect that people aren’t using Internet Explorer 6, 7 or 8 because it has a lot of compatibility issues. Since the development team is small, it’s very difficult to be able to test – to be sure that TestLink has no issues with the different browsers. That being said, I don’t have a problem telling users to run on different servers – from different browsers. I normally test on Chrome and Firefox, and not much on Internet Explorer just because I’m using Linux as my development platform.

Stuart Langridge:       How often does TestLink release?  What’s the release strategy and the release cadence?

Francisco Mancardi:  During the last few years, I have tried to increase the release pace of TestLink, and we can say that we have four releases in a year normally. These releases include bug fixes and new features.  In the last two years we have no big-bang features, but people have been requesting a lot. As an example, many people were requesting to record the execution results of step levels. Finally this year, I was able to release it because a German company had provided support with the development. It is really great when people support us like that because it makes it easier to release a new thing.

Stuart Langridge:       Do you do time-based releases or feature-based releases?  When you say that you release four times a year, do you mean that four times a year you say, “Okay, the development version of TestLink is now TestLink 1.9.2”?

Francisco Mancardi:  It is normally time-based because if TestLink has bugs, and we need to provide fixes to the people. Aside from the releases, if there are some features that I consider important enough, I will release before the preplanned date.

Stuart Langridge:       How do upgrades work?  If I’m running the current version of TestLink and a new release happens, how do I upgrade to it? Can I stay on the version I’m on and stay supported, or do I have to be running the most recent version?

Francisco Mancardi:  During the last year, I chose not to support a very automated upgrade process because it’s very time-consuming to develop this kind of approach. Also, in the past years, the changes normally had a big impact on the databases. Since the updates have been very small in the last years, I currently provide an upgrade manually.

Normally, an upgrade consists of taking a couple older VMs and installing new ones, or you can just install a new Bitnami installer. Another option is to download the latest release from SourceForge, by installing TestLink in another folder and applying two or three SQL scripts to the database.

Regarding the older releases, I try to only maintain releases that are not older than a year because changes on code require a lot of work to maintain newer versions. Version 1.8 is not supported anymore, and currently you can run 1.9.9 or 1.9.10. We don’t support the other versions due to bug fixes and features that are no longer there.

Stuart Langridge:       So, TestLink is currently in the high 1.9 versions. What are your upcoming plans for TestLink?  Is there going to be a TestLink 2.0? Are you planning on working on the 1.9 series, and what will happen in new versions?

Francisco Mancardi:  The development on Version 2.0 has stopped because it was very difficult to maintain two parallels between 1.9 and 2.0. I have tried to work backward by going from 2.0 to 1.9, and suppose that the new features of TestLink would be a 1.9 branch. I don’t know when I’m planning to change to 2.0, but I need to consider what kind of future I can afford. 2.0 is going to be beneath it, and the new 2.0 will be an evolution of 1.9.

Stuart Langridge:       What things are you planning on working on next, improvements to the reports or improvements to the GUI?  Is that the kind of area that you’d expect TestLink to change in?

Francisco Mancardi:  I think the reports area needs more work because people like to have the Word or OpenOffice format. Currently they have provided us with a kind of fake OpenOffice or fake Word, and I have a lot of issues with embedded images. That is one of the most important things we need to change, but also the GUI needs to be refreshed a lot. I don’t think we will be able to have a mobile version of the app, but we need to work on a mobile and responsive version of TestLink in order to be used from a PC tablet.

Stuart Langridge:       You obviously work quite closely with the TestLink community.  Is that community mostly people who work on TestLink itself, or people who use TestLink to manage tests in their own organization?

Francisco Mancardi:  There aren’t enough people that want to help to develop TestLink. I think our community has an interesting size because you have to consider that I have no download statistics from Bitnami. On SourceForge, we get more than 1,000 downloads a week. I think it’s a good figure because this kind of application isn’t the most popular as an issue tracker. As more and more people use TestLink, they improve things through ideas more than through development work. I like to have people help by writing tutorials or other documentation of a use case that can be useful for other people. One thing that TestLink lacks is documentation – we had written a user manual long time ago, and it was my choice to develop instead of documenting, which sometimes makes it a little difficult to use TestLink.

Stuart Langridge:       If someone wants to use TestLink, where should they go to try it out or if they want to ask questions?

Francisco Mancardi:  The main site is www.testlink.org, which has information about the last stable release and links to our other channels. For community help, the best place is forum.testlink.org. For issues, we have a Mantis installation, and a Twitter account that I use to inform people of things that are happening and nothing more. I don’t provide support via Twitter. Also, we have a LinkedIn group, but managing all these channels is very time-consuming. I suggest that people get a username for the forum if they need to ask for help between users. Also, they can get a username for Mantis, which will give them the ability to provide feature request and the option for us to help them with issues.

Stuart Langridge:       Excellent.  And so, thank you very much for talking to us, Francisco Mancardi of the TestLink project.

Francisco Mancardi:  Bye-bye.

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Bitnami Open Source Leaders Interview Series: Sytse Sijbranij from GitLab

Gitlab leads by example with their passion for creating open source collaboration tools, with the ability to do everything on code. As part of our Open Source Leader podcast series, we interviewed Sytse Sijbranij, CEO of GitLab, to learn how they maintain their open source community and what will be next for their tools.

Below is a sample of the topics we covered:

• Why Gitlab?
• Who should use it?
• What is the relationship between Gitlab and Github?
• Where is the best place to run Gitlab?
• How does the Gitlab community work? 
• Where is is Gitlab going next? 

You can launch a GitLab application or stack to the cloud with Bitnami for free, or download any of our free native installers or VMs to run the software locally. Get started in the cloud for free with a $200 credit from Microsoft Azure.

Stuart Langridge:       This is the Binami Open Source Leaders Series of Interviews.  I’m Stuart Langridge, and I’m talking to Sytse Sijbranij of GitLab.

Sytse Sijbranij:            Hi Stuart thanks for having us.

Stuart Langridge:        No problem.  So Sytse, you’re CEO and co-founder of GitLab, yes?

Sytse Sijbranij:            Yes. That’s correct. 

Stuart Langridge:        So tell us, what is GitLab?  

Sytse Sijbranij:            GitLab is open source software to collaborate on code.  It means you can download a package, install it, and you’ll have version control, issue management, code reviews, a wiki, all ready to run within your organization.

Stuart Langridge:       So you could think of this essentially like a self-hosted version of GitHub, yes?

Sytse Sijbranij:           Exactly. 

Stuart Langridge:       Since we mentioned GitHub, the elephant in the room. Obviously there’s a big advantage in that I’m running it inside my organization, so it’s private if I want it to be.  If you look at this field there are an awful lot of different packaging attempts at this, both hosted, something like GitHub or LaunchPad. Talk about why GitLab’s better than the competition, what you do really well, and why people would want to go with you.

Bitnami Open Source Leaders Interview Series: Dave Page from PostgreSQL

Billing itself as the "world's most advanced open source database", PostgreSQL is bundled with many of our most popular Bitnami apps, including our LAPP stack, Dev Pack, OpenERP/Odoo, Discourse and more. To kick off our new Open Source Leaders podcast series, we interviewed Dave Page, the Director of PostgreSQL Europe, to learn more about the PosgreSQL database and what's to come from the project.

Here are just a few of the topics we covered:

How does the PostgreSQL community work?

Why should one be involved in the community?

What is next for PostgreSQL?  

How does PostgreSQL stack up next to no-SQL leaders?

Does PostgreSQL work on the cloud?

What level of experience do you need run PostgreSQL?

You can launch a PostgreSQL application or stack to the cloud with Bitnami for free, or download any of our free native installers or VMs to run the software locally. Get started in the cloud for free with a $200 credit from Microsoft Azure. You can browse a full list of Bitnami app stacks that contain PostgreSQL on the Bitnami site.

Stuart Langridge:        This is the Bitnami Open Source Leaders series of interviews.  I’m Stuart Lankridge and I’m here talking to Dave Page.  Dave is Director of PostgreSQL Europe, Vice Chair of the PostgreSQL Community of Canada, he’s chief architect of Tools and Installs at EnterpriseDB and he’s a core team member of the PostgreSQL project.  Hey Dave, welcome to the interview.

David Page:                Thank you, Stuart nice to talk to you.

Stuart Langridge:        So what is Postgres? 

David Page:                Postgres is an open source relational database management system. We compete mostly with the likes of Oracle and SQL Server.  It’s a completely open source permissive license.  We have a very large community that are both using Postgres and submitting patches on a regular basis.  So we’re pretty diverse in the things that Postgres supports because we have this large community of people from all sorts of different areas and different industries helping us build the product and add support for all sorts of useful features.

Stuart Langridge:        You talked there about the size and diversity of the community.  Is Postgres targeting a particular use case or does it do everything from small data storage up to huge data stores?