Re: Oracle news article

Interesting. I'm not sure if he gets it. Oracle does have a ton of
features that PostgreSQL *currently* lacks:

Table spaces
Logical Schemas
System Privileges
Advanced Object Privileges (such as Column privileges)
Profiles
Auditing
Parallel Query
Distributed Query,
...

and a ton of interfaces and tools, like Pro*Cobol, Pro*Fortran,
SQL*Loader, etc. It also does a better job in handling inter-object
dependencies.

But the question remains:

For any given project, are the above features worth the typical Oracle
licensing costs?

For some, yes they absolutely are. But for many, many others, they
aren't. And as time goes on, the PostgreSQL feature list has grown at an
accelerating pace.

Just my humble opinion,

Mike Mascari
mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com

"Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos" wrote:
>
> http://searchdatabase.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid13_gci562454,00.html
>
> Check out the question "Do you find open-source database vendors to be a threat to Oracle?"
>
> cheers,
> thalis