Re: Problem with recent PostgreSQL relatedpressrelease

On Jul 13, 2007, at 3:24 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Jonah H. Harris wrote:
>> On 7/13/07, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>>> That kind of makes my point :)
>> The fact is, if you write a PostgreSQL-only app, it will run
>> perfectly
>> on PostgreSQL or EnterpriseDB.
>
> But that isn't what I asked. I asked if I wrote an EnterpriseDB app
> would it run on PostgreSQL, the answer is clearly no. Yes, yes we
> can of course not use Enterprise (Oracle) features, but one of the
> benefits of EnterpriseDB is that I "can" use those Oracle features.
>
> That is my only point.

And if someone buys Mammoth and sets up replication, they're just as
locked-in. Actually more-so, since EnterpriseDB can be used as a
"bridge" to get you from Oracle to PostgreSQL or vice-versa.
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