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To: Justin Clift <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Advocacy <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Birmingham City Council chose Oracle, went broke because of it ;)
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2023 10:22:37 +0200
Message-ID: <CABUevEwoKms3OuRR_vQV6QqCU35jBzKRZ0iunq2twOEkwzO4BQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 1:49 AM Justin Clift <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Heh Heh Heh. This is pretty funny:
>
> https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/05/birmingham_city_council_oracle/
>
> "Birmingham City Council, the largest local authority in Europe, has
> declared itself in financial distress after troubled Oracle project
> costs ballooned from £20 million to around £100 million ($125.5
> million)."
>
> Wonder if they'll make the smart choice next time around, and choose PG
> + a decent vendor instead? :)
In fairness, that project is about Oracle Fusion, not the database. So
PG doesn't have a competing product. There are opensource ERP products
out there, but I'm not sure they're advanced enough to handle
something like that...
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Magnus Hagander
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