Thread: Re: SAPDB was DRAFT: v7.3 Release Announcement

Well, I do agree with Postgres being older and more
established, but as far as name recognition goes,
I would put SAP as being ahead in that category
by a wide margin.

Their free db also has built in replication.


----- Original Message -----
From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 15:58:09 -0700
To: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Subject: [pgsql-advocacy] SAPDB was DRAFT: v7.3 Release Announcement


> Derek,
>
> > One interesting thing that I want to add to this
> > discussion, which I'm sure some of you have heard,
> > and probably already mentioned, is that SAP released
> > a free version of its database, called SAPDB.
> > Now, when I think of "ultra enterprise level software"
> > I think of SAP. Perhaps making one of those comparison
> > charts and including SAPDB in there, we can piggyback
> > on their name and use it to our advantage.
>
> I know about SAPDB -- nice folks.  However, as we are the older and
> better-established project, I don't think we need to "piggyback on their
> name"; if anything, the other way around.
>
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Derek,

> Well, I do agree with Postgres being older and more
> established, but as far as name recognition goes,
> I would put SAP as being ahead in that category
> by a wide margin.

SAP is well-known; SAP DB is not.   I try to mention it whenever I list off OS
databases (along with Phoenix) because nobody seems to have heard of it, and
it's a natural for Oracle migrators.

> Their free db also has built in replication.

Yeah.  I wish we could use their implementation, but the back-end
architectures are radically different.

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-Josh Berkus
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>SAP is well-known; SAP DB is not.

Yeah, I understand that, but, there is always a certain crowd that comes
with, "well if it's free, it must not be any good."

And then you can respond with how SAP even has a free database,
but that your database is much better, etc.

Take Linux for instance, that went from a hobbyist
OS to an enterprise level platform when IBM and Oracle
started backing it -- I don't know how good Oracle's
"Unbreakable Linux Cluster" is but the PR alone for
Red Hat is priceless, and that Unbreakable Cluster
has an amazing brand value.
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