Re: Comparison of Oracle and PostgreSQL full text search

On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:24:12 -0600, Scott Marlowe
<scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:
>
> Someone running Oracle is complaining about training costs? That
> seems a bit like complaining about needing to give the bellboy a $1
> tip at a $1k a night hotel.

Depending on how they are running their licensing,
(user/processor/standard/enterprise) Oracle can actually be reasonable in
the sense of a commercial database. That said, PostgreSQL training is
cheap. If you have enough people in your org to justify a on-site training,
a 2 day Administration + Performance + Maintenance class is only 5k
(remember on-site).

Over time though, there is no question that hands down PostgreSQL will
save you money. You can get an Enterprise class support contract for 500.00
a month per server.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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