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Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 23:17:24 -0500
From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
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Subject: Re: [SQL] Can we convert from Postgres to Oracle !!???
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On 10/21/06 22:10, Steve Atkins wrote:
> 
> On Oct 21, 2006, at 6:48 PM, Berend Tober wrote:
> 
>> Devrim GUNDUZ wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 14:21 +0530, Sandeep Kumar Jakkaraju wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can we convert from Postgres to Oracle !!???
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes!!???
>>>
>>
>> But of course, that begs the question: Why on earth would you want
>> to!!???
> 
> Sale of enterprise software into companies that have already paid
> for Oracle, built the infrastructure and have (Oracle) DBAs to handle
> tuning, HA and so on.

Exactly.  If you've already ponied up the big bucks for an Oracle
site license, why add extra complexity?

> Adding postgresql into that mix is a hard sell. Enterprise software
> that can support both postgresql and oracle backends is a much
> easier sell (even into those places that end up using postgresql).

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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