Re: PostgreSQL vs. SQL Server, Oracle

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 12:24:15PM +0200, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:
> Press coverage, an interview with Neil Matthew and Richard Stones.
>
> 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."

My experiences calling these outfits in an emergency have been a lot
less than uniformly good, even with their top-cost levels of support.
Blaming one of these outfits may save some manager's job, but that's
not the same as actually having the emergency resolved promptly, or
better still, not having it happen at all.

"First, the ability to write functions and stored procedures is
somewhat more limited than you would get with Oracle's PL/SQL or
Sybase's T-SQL."

I don't know which languages they were looking at, but it's hard to
imagine how PL/SQL or T-SQL outdid PL/Perl, PL/PythonU, PL/Ruby,
PL/sh, etc. from a flexibility perspective.

Cheers,
D
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