Re: Is Postgres comparable to MSSQL

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: ahester(at)galacticltd(dot)com, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Is Postgres comparable to MSSQL
Date: 2005-10-17 17:11:59
Message-ID: 20051017171159.GY86144@pervasive.com
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On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 09:56:12AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> That being said, here's a short list of major PostgreSQL users:
>
> National Weather Service
> Cisco
> Ameritrade
> Fujitsu
> SRA Inc.
> Sony
> Yamaha
> US Army
> Library of Congress
> Afilias (.ORG and .INFO domains)
> Sun Microsystems
> Federal Gov't of Venezuala
> Sao Paolo Muni
> NTT Data
>
> ... so I think PostgreSQL should be "good enough" for your 50-person
> company. One interesting example is TravelPost.com, which is using
> PostGIS with ASP.NET, and finds the performance of Postgres, even with
> .NET, to be superior to SQL Server.

Can we get any of that on the website somewhere?
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