Compare price of implementation.
For that $100k on the oracle license you can toss in a few more gigs
of memory and a few extra CPU's and perhaps 15k drives rather than 10k
ones :)
Then toss in the monthly support contracts between Oracle & Great
Bridge (or Pgsql.inc if you can get anyone on their staff) and all of
a sudden you can afford to upgrade the hardware more often and have a
developer write some work arounds for the slower parts of the program.
Anyway, the point is to compare the 2 products where the price is
similar (installation wide). If postgres is faster, then reduce the
hardware till they are a similar speed level. Now you do a price
comparison and take it to business. 'Cheaper software, but slightly
more expensive hardware means a lower priced package with similar
performance'.
--
Rod Taylor
Your eyes are weary from staring at the CRT. You feel sleepy. Notice
how restful it is to watch the cursor blink. Close your eyes. The
opinions stated above are yours. You cannot imagine why you ever felt
otherwise.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: "Tom Ivar Helbekkmo" <tih@kpnQwest.no>
Cc: "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] 7.2 items
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> >
> > > Here is a small list of big TODO items. I was wondering which
ones
> > > people were thinking about for 7.2?
> >
> > A friend of mine wants to use PostgreSQL instead of Oracle for a
large
> > application, but has run into a snag when speed comparisons looked
> > good until the Oracle folks added a couple of BITMAP indexes. I
can't
> > recall seeing any discussion about that here -- are there any
plans?
>
> It is not on our list and I am not sure what they do.
>
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