From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: PFC <lists@peufeu.com>
Cc: 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
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Subject: Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-advocacy] [PERFORM] Postgres VS Oracle
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:32:13 -0700
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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.
Joshua D. Drake
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