| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net> |
| Cc: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, Kaare Rasmussen <kaare(at)jasonic(dot)dk> |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL vs. SQL Server, Oracle |
| Date: | 2006-10-13 17:37:36 |
| Message-ID: | 452FCEE0.9010604@commandprompt.com |
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> "running PostgreSQL" != "running mission-critical public services on
> PostgreSQL". :)
>
> AFAIK every large customer we've talked to is "running" MySQL... for
> internal apps that aren't mission-critical.
Well any company will to run mysql for mission critical stuff probably
isn't thinking very hard about the implications.
Beyond that, I know of several *technical* based fortune 500 companies
that are doing exactly that... running postgresql on critical
infrastructure. No. I will not name names, don't ask.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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