Re: PostgreSQL vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Ron Mayer
Subject Re: PostgreSQL vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft
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Msg-id 41EFF265.40902@cheapcomplexdevices.com
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In response to PostgreSQL vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft  (Randolf Richardson <rr@8x.ca>)
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Randolf Richardson wrote:

>>  While this doesn't exactly answer your question, I use this little
>>  tidbit of information when "selling" people on PostgreSQL.  PostgreSQL
>>  was chosen over Oracle as the database to handle all of the .org TLDs
>>  information.  ...
>
>         Do you have a link for that information?  I've told a few people about
> this and one PostgreSQL advocate (thanks to me -- they were going to be a
> Microsoft shop before that) is asking.

Of course you could read their application when they were competing
with a bunch of other companies using databases from different vendors.

I believe this is the link to their response to the database
  questions...

http://www.icann.org/tlds/org/questions-to-applicants-13.htm#Response13TheInternetSocietyISOC

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