(cut down the reply-tos)
Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> PFC wrote:
>
>>
>>> 2. Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM have a "lot" to fear in the sense of a
>>> database like PostgreSQL. We can compete in 90-95% of cases where
>>> people would traditionally purchase a proprietary system for many,
>>> many thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of dollars.
>>
>>
>> Oracle also fears benchmarks made by people who don't know how to
>> tune Oracle properly...
>
>
> Yes that is one argument that is made (and a valid one) but it is
> assuredly not the only one that can be made, that would be legitimate.
>
Given how many bogus MySQL vr.s Postgresql benchmarks I've seen, where
Postgres is running untuned "out of the box", it's a sufficient reasons,
IMHO.
Brian