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> 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...