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  1. Re:I wont mark you as foe, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on RMS Weighs in on BitKeeper Debacle
    Now if only we could ditch Oracle.

    Curious if you tried postgresql. Not a recommendation (it really depends on your application), just a curiosity. In some cases if postgresql is close-but-not-quite you can pay one of the companies that support postgresql to make up the difference.

    Remember that bigger companies than Oracle support postgresql.

    In fact, if you want a >$40Billion revenue company supporting your database, your *ONLY* choices are postegresql, sqlserver, and db2. And yes, it's very fun to tell oracle DBAs that our company rejected Oracle because "only small companies support Oracle". (Oracle is much smaller than Fujitsu).

  2. Re:Need more info by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on PostgreSQL on Big Sites?
    who you gonna call?

    Well, considering that there are Bigger companies supporting PostgreSQL than Oracle, that's a pretty strong vote in PostgreSQL's favor.

    In fact, if you want support from a $40Billion+ company, your only choices are really DB2, PostgreSQL and SQLServer.

    This is especially true if you're a multinational, because Fujitsu has a much stronger worldwide presence.

  3. Re:Need more info by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on PostgreSQL on Big Sites?
    If his company wants a database for a scenario that is a read-only webpage scenario, it doesn't really matter if you use an open source db or a commercial one....On the other hand, if his companies business is reliant on this database for its core revenue generation

    Uh, both are equally business decisions. If your e-commerce site is making $1million/month (as mine was) your read-only home page is way more critical than your HR system.

    . If postgres offers equivalent ... performance,

    You mean performance/dollar, don't you?

    It's *ALL* a question of return on investment.

    equivalent ability to hire skilled resources worldwide,

    The combination of costs of DBA vs Support vs Risk of failure determines the ROI.

    If it's hard to hire a good PostgreSQL DBA for the same price as a good Oracle DBA, support will be very important. If support is important to my company, and I had a large multinational organization I might chose Postgresql because I can get bigger companies to support Postgresql than Oracle.

  4. Re:Need more info by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on PostgreSQL on Big Sites?
    with Oracle or whoever. ...I assume you could get this level of support from a Postgres related company as well,

    Note that Postgresql is supported by bigger companies than Oracle is.

  5. Re:Support from whom? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Microsoft Remains Firm On Ending VB6 Support
    Who exactly would be supporting it?

    Whomever we hired to support it. In our case, probably IBM Global Services, who provides good support for many other F/OSS works.

    unless the customer plans to do the support himself by hiring programmers to keep it going

    I think it's rare for a company to actually want to do the support in house.. We have Novell and IBM for supporting Linux, and Fujitsu for supporting F/OSS database products.

  6. Re:How exactly? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Microsoft Remains Firm On Ending VB6 Support
    Let's take an existing open source project for example, say OO.org. If -hypothetically- it was to be abandoned by Sun microsystems, do you believe that another company could simply download the source and start developing?

    Yes, I believe IBM and Novell both would.

    Consider even more complex projects like postgresql. When the company developing it (Great Bridge) died, other companies like Fujitsu stepped in to fill the need.

    (and it's really fun to tell Oracle DBAs that "we use PostgreSQL because Oracle is only supported by little companies" - noting that Fujitsu is much bigger than Oracle)

  7. Re:Mono is dead until theres a usable IDE by tcopeland · · Score: 2, Informative · on The State of the Open Source Union, 2004

    > I've worked with [..] PostgreSQL, and they are
    > all toy databases.

    Fujitsu disagrees with that.

  8. Re:Pervasive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on PostgreSQL 8.0 Released
    A couple links on Fujitsu support here and here

    At 156,000 employees and $4.7 Trillion Yen (over 40 billion USD) I think that's bigger than Oracle.

  9. Re:Pervasive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on PostgreSQL 8.0 Released
    A couple links on Fujitsu support here and here

    At 156,000 employees and $4.7 Trillion Yen (over 40 billion USD) I think that's bigger than Oracle.

  10. Re:How does it compare to Oracle? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on PostgreSQL 8.0 Released

    Uh, You're saying This isn't a big company!?! At 156,000 employees and $4.7 Trillion Yen (over 40 billion USD) Revenue, it's quite big IMHO. If my math is right, that's way bigger than Oracle. And yes, Fujitsu does support Postgresql

  11. Re:How does it compare to Oracle? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on PostgreSQL 8.0 Released

    Uh, You're saying This isn't a big company!?! At 156,000 employees and $4.7 Trillion Yen (over 40 billion USD) Revenue, it's quite big IMHO. If my math is right, that's way bigger than Oracle. And yes, Fujitsu does support Postgresql