From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Jonah H. Harris <jonah.harris@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Kostyrka <andreas@kostyrka.org>
Cc: David Tokmatchi <david.tokmatchi@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [PERFORM] Postgres VS Oracle
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:17:37 -0700
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Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> On 6/18/07, Andreas Kostyrka <andreas@kostyrka.org> wrote:
>> As a cynic, I might ask, what Oracle is fearing?
>
> As a realist, I might ask, how many times do we have to answer this
> type of anti-commercial-database flamewar-starting question?
Depends? How many times are you going to antagonize the people that ask?
1. It has *nothing* to do with anti-commercial. It is anti-proprietary
which is perfectly legitimate.
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.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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