| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andreas Kostyrka <andreas(at)kostyrka(dot)org>, David Tokmatchi <david(dot)tokmatchi(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [PERFORM] Postgres VS Oracle |
| Date: | 2007-06-18 17:17:37 |
| Message-ID: | 4676BE31.6040701@commandprompt.com |
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Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> On 6/18/07, Andreas Kostyrka <andreas(at)kostyrka(dot)org> wrote:
>> As a cynic, I might ask, what Oracle is fearing?
>
> As a realist, I might ask, how many times do we have to answer this
> type of anti-commercial-database flamewar-starting question?
Depends? How many times are you going to antagonize the people that ask?
1. It has *nothing* to do with anti-commercial. It is anti-proprietary
which is perfectly legitimate.
2. Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM have a "lot" to fear in the sense of a
database like PostgreSQL. We can compete in 90-95% of cases where people
would traditionally purchase a proprietary system for many, many
thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of dollars.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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