Re: Latest marketing material, flyers, etc - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Am 25.09.2016 um 11:12 schrieb Riaan Stander:
> Good day
>
>
>
> I’m leading the charge in our company to change our software
> product from SQL Server to PostgreSQL.

Having been exposed to SQL-Server for a while, all I can say is: good
choice ;-)


> Our reasons are as follows:
>
> Cost: To use our product our self-hosted clients need to have SQL
> Server installed. None of them can afford the cost of Enterprise
> edition, limiting our ability to offer high availability
> solutions.
>
> Agility: When we want to use features in newer version of SQL
> Server we are in effect forcing our clients to upgrade, at their
> cost, to the latest version. This obviously does not go down well,
> limiting our ability to move forward.
>
> Our own hosting cost: Even for ourselves paying for SQL Server
> Enterprise in order to offer high availability is not a option.
>
>
>
> Given the above I’m proposing our company drop SQL Server and move
> over to PostgreSQL. Apart from technical features, which we are
> testing, business needs convincing to move away from something they
> know to something new.
>
>
>
> Can you point me to any marketing material, facts, use cases,
> white papers that can help state my business case.

I'd reckon your internal hosting costs should be enough to convince
your management. But alas, as most companies do their financial (and
effort) calculations in slightly different ways, you'll probably have
to do that math yourself...

I've got some more technical ammo for you though:

First, I very much like https://www.pg-versus-ms.com/.
Then, I've given a talk about basically what you miss when you stay
with SQL-Server at the pgconf.de 2015 (the slides are in english):
https://wiki.postgresql.org/images/b/b2/Gunnar_Bluth_-_tis_but_a_scratch
_pgconf.de_2015-11-27.odp

Hope that helps!

Best regards,
- --
Gunnar "Nick" Bluth
DBA ELSTER

Tel:   +49 911/991-4665
Mobil: +49 172/8853339
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux)
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=hASe
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----