Thread: Latest marketing material, flyers, etc
Good day
I’m leading the charge in our company to change our software product from SQL Server to PostgreSQL.
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.
Regards
Riaan
On 25 Sep 2016, at 10:12, Riaan Stander <rstander@exa.co.za> wrote: > > Good day > > I’m leading the charge in our company to change our software product from SQL Server to PostgreSQL. > > 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 ofEnterprise 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, attheir 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 aoption. > > Given the above I’m proposing our company drop SQL Server and move over to PostgreSQL. Apart from technical features, whichwe 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. There are some Case Studies here, mostly from ~2011-2012 though as we haven’t been keeping that up to date: * https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Case_Study_Links As a thought, if your company uses VMware internally, these will probably be relevant then: * https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2016/03/getting-comfortable-with-vpostgres-and-the-vcenter-server-appliance-part-1.html * https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2016/05/getting-comfortable-with-vpostgres-and-the-vcenter-server-appliance-part-2.html Those two links are about VMware moving to bundle PostgreSQL as the embedded vCenter database (for ~all installations). Both an interesting read, but also can be pointed out that places using VMware might as well start getting some PostgreSQL understanding happening now. :D Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi
-----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) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJX6mXIAAoJEDh0MJ2tR5CnB8UP/jZQgOsuIX7wdoeN6nq/Z6AE ftxBs9mzXc7LPjhJuvSuwf1TF7eB1fBfn1UhrGFiDRFOEXcyMSCIvJVMh4+XbIgF DLhqai8rKNQkgZmltaARhfURvfZUX+VnTN3VVFgFVwPOYfCKaCnD4RyP+3G0Uk3r DbXBwBLuyw7vpS8qVBFf3/RI4FocZeCW5wgqRem/W5LaX0RCaiSKqzuWgll7EhUk uU/WzFUaqYAObkVkcOvaZx+CL1ivaci6pwI5ZGjzT7XYz26txFaxoh093/DPLdl+ JeaPJHDd/yfrw1y45zct+ku2THazj83Gw8W3sFCb+aiT/TTT/iw2RwQYYR0Sf2BW U0YZ5urel/v2jsKAtqEGrCCL38iwJe6I0isnwnG7741X5INPPBOXhJrpc5eEK4pW zJ0sE1RFiy6ufKIUHofuQnFXTaukrCwIsHVYVl+yl2vnPTJMtWL7Njaa6xsNM3Zv xiXa+eAy93uqhaWUcKMSQ0u6N4K9t8dgv01hla3rMfRi3xX3zHzhp+42W+0m8kFN EhmLC59GBHYZpHFAcJ9BplQYFk4XTE63RGi2kIYZsGk24mDfOLaZSm7TSwc/DKUA A73RewsGWZmsHvnhcMKzzmmNbic/5hJoVXhly6L0TTqkI/kdTrk71OHPP4COPi8E 8KCZE3mirAnBw0BqJjTf =hASe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----