Re: DBMS Engines and Performance

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On 01/30/07 14:50, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Mark Walker wrote:
>
[snip]
> At last year's at O'Reilly's OSCON here in Portland I had this discussion
> with the booth babes sales droids from Sugar-CRM. They said that they heard
> numerous requests for postgres support but the decision-makers in the
> company were not interested in accommodating that segment of the market. So
> this is not an isolated instance.
>
> At the risk of going off the topic (but I won't respond on the list to
> any
> such posts), this attitude does not surprise me. It continues to disappoint
> me, but I've seen too many poorly managed companies to be surprised any
> longer. Across many industries I wonder why some companies manage to have
> survived as long as they have.

The company might not have the resources to maintain 2 backends, or
modify the whole system so that it is backend neutral. Maybe they
use lots of MySQL-specific features that would make re-engineering
it an arduous/imposible/expensive task, and thus not feasible.

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