Thread: Re: [HACKERS] Support (was: Democracy and organisation)

Re: [HACKERS] Support (was: Democracy and organisation)

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Tim Hart
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On Thursday,  27, 2002, at 10:07AM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:

>Or from a financial perspective:  An enterprise MS SQL 2000 user can
>expect to pay, under Licensing 6.0, about $10,000 - $20,000 a year in
>licnesing fees -- *not including any support*.   Just $2000-$5000 buys
>you a pretty good $10 million software failure insurance policy.   Do
>the math.
>
>-Josh Berkus

The statement above has brought something to light that I had never really considered...
Will an insurance company issue a software failure policy against PostgreSQL? If so, that may help me in my own
strugglesto convince managment that they're current approach to mitigating their risk is not only flawed, but
*financiallyimpracticle*.