Re: Are we losing momentum? - Mailing list pgsql-general

** Reply to message from Tony Grant <tony@tgds.net> on 15 Apr 2003 08:12:04
+0200
Hi,
 I've got to agree with this.
 We have just been through the excercise of porting our quite extensive fleet
maintenance and accounting package from db2 to postgres. While the port was not
without pain :) the results are very good. We run windows clients, (mostly),
and whatever the database of choice performs best on for the backend. We are
seeing performance gains for the 20-100 user bracket of a factor of 10 to 20
for switching from db2 to postgres on the same platform.
 We literally could not port this stuff to mysql. It does not have enough
feature to support us :)
 Definitely the story is not that postgres competes with mysql/access but
rather with db2/oracle, and the point in time recovery coming in the next
release, just strengthens that story a whole lot more too.

And, client reaction to an opensource (free :) database on linux has been very
enthusiastic.

Regards,
Wayne
http://www.bacchus.com.au

> On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 00:37, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Several people have asked if we are losing momentum.  Specifically, they
> > are concerned about Red Hat dropping their Red Hat Database and instead
> > distributing PostgreSQL as part of Red Hat Enterprise Server, and they
> > are concerned about recent press articles about MySQL.
>
> Just reading GENERAL every day shows quite the contrary! There are more
> and more questions which really belong on NOVICE. More and more
> questions about porting applications from MySQL and Access.
>
> RedHat renaming "PostgreSQL" to "PostgreSQL" after a short stint a.k.a.
> "Red Hat Database" is a very positive step.
>
> Lots of stupid journalists are starting to write "replace Oracle with
> MySQL" rubbish. I am very concerned about this because the DBA who is
> stupid enough to do this will fail miserably and get the wrong
> impression about free RDBMS.
>
> Lets forget the "replace MySQL with PostgreSQL" stuff and go looking for
> higher end converts. Our marketing push should be "replace Oracle with
> PostgreSQL and replace Access with MySQL". This puts the emphasis on
> which database can do what...
>
> Just my 2 EURO cents
>
> Cheers
> Tony Grant
> (yes I use PostgreSQL where MySQL would suffice...)
>
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