Re: PostgreSQL in Brazil

If they choose something other than PostgreSQL, they will be back. :-)

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elein wrote:
> Here is a story. There is a company in Brazil with about 20,000
> clients all over Brazil. They made a decision to move from BTrieve
> to PostgreSQL. BTrieve had been supplied by DBExperts. After a
> sales pitch to by the owner of DBExperts, the board of directors,
> have made a subsequent decision to move to Pervasive.SQL.
>
> This company has very high visibility. And I think dbExperts
> gets around the area of Brazil a lot, too.
>
> Oh, the funny part... The sales pitch for Pervasive.SQL included:
> * "You install the software and forget it!"
> * [ and if you have Btrieve files then ] "...you can access these
> files with transactional procedures if you like to."
>
> I'm have no idea what to do about the problem, but I know
> that the (postgresql) person doing the data migration is miserable.
>
> As we know, PostgreSQL is big in Brazil. It is likely DbExperts
> is shooting themselves in the foot.
>
> This is the kind of thing we should know about. I'm not sure
> we could provide enough fodder to override the salespitch
> in a particular case since that pretty much has to be an inside job.
>
> The only thing I can think of is to tell the story.
> People make bad business decisions all the time.
>
> elein
>
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>
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>
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