Re: PostgreSQL vs. SQL Server, Oracle

From: Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL vs. SQL Server, Oracle
Date: 2006-10-11 22:17:38
Message-ID: 452D6D82.2030408@cheapcomplexdevices.com
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David Fetter wrote:
>> http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid39_gci1222466,00.html
>
> With friends like these...
>
> "In an emergency, having companies the size of Microsoft or Oracle to
> call on may significantly mitigate that risk."

Thanks to Fujitsu you have a bigger company supporting
PostgreSQL than Oracle.

I believe if you want a > $40 Billion revenue company
supporting your database, your only choices are SQL
Server, DB2, and PostgreSQL (Fujitsu's 4.8 billion yen
revenue is about 40 billion/yr makes it the world's third
largest IT services provider).

With such alternatives, you wouldn't want to trust your
business to a database only supported by a small company
like Oracle ($15B/yr), would you?

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