Re: New and investigating - Mailing list pgsql-novice

Thanks everybody who answered. All the answers have been very interesting.

I think i get the picture, and will have to give up on getting the material
i was looking for.

Now, for the record, i wasn't expecting to find the same kind of material
that can be found for Oracle et al. But as there is a PostgreSQL Inc, I
thought there would be "something" (further than the advocacy page). I
thought (and still do) that it should be beefed up. There must be so much
more. (That Inc. surely looks for benefits, but i will supose they work more
with consulting than sales ?)

The path you draw, Tom, then efectively seems to be the only way in this
case. I hope i will eventually be able to go that way. Thanks for providing
the "context", it's as always the most useful piece of information.

Thanks again everybody for their answers. I still welcome all opinions,
testimonies, etc.

Alain

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Alain Gougeon" <agougeon@sigma.gov.bo>
Cc: <pgsql-novice@postgresql.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 7:51 PM
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] New and investigating


> "Alain Gougeon" <agougeon@sigma.gov.bo> writes:
> > Where do i obtain information on PostgreSQL that would allow me to have
an
> > acceptable level of trust in it???
>
> I don't think you're going to find what you're looking for.
> Companies are not normally in the habit of stepping forward and offering
> unsolicited testimonials for stuff that they use (especially not free
> software).  It takes a good deal of cajoling to get someone to offer a
> reference, and right now there is no one with the
> time/interest/resources to do that for Postgres.  Unless possibly
> PostgreSQL Inc, and you say you already looked there.
>
> Great Bridge used to be in the business of collecting such references,
> and they had a number of good ones, but I think all that information
> vanished when they shut down.  Red Hat was doing so as well, but they
> are currently maintaining a low profile w.r.t. RHDB, so I don't think
> anything is going to be available there either.
>
> You could try SRA, too, but most likely anything they'd have would be
> in Japanese ...
>
> The bottom line is that one of the reasons why there's a price
> difference between Oracle and Postgres is that Oracle has a marketing
> department that goes out and collects the sort of testimonials you're
> looking for.  Postgres doesn't.
>
> So, if you aren't going to touch Postgres without an Oracle-like stack
> of marketing material, we might as well not waste each other's time:
> go buy Oracle.  If you want to consider using Postgres, my
> recommendation would be to build up the confidence you want for
> yourself.  Start small, with some noncritical projects, and see how
> Postgres does with them.  Scale up from there.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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