Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] [ADMIN] Postgres VS Oracle

From: Brian Hurt <bhurt(at)janestcapital(dot)com>
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Subject: Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] [ADMIN] Postgres VS Oracle
Date: 2007-06-18 18:01:55
Message-ID: 4676C893.9020901@janestcapital.com
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> PFC wrote:
>
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Oracle also fears benchmarks made by people who don't know how to
>> tune Oracle properly...
>
>
> Yes that is one argument that is made (and a valid one) but it is
> assuredly not the only one that can be made, that would be legitimate.
>

Given how many bogus MySQL vr.s Postgresql benchmarks I've seen, where
Postgres is running untuned "out of the box", it's a sufficient reasons,
IMHO.

Brian

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