Re: [GENERAL] Postgres vs commercial products

Um - let me get this straight... you want to go buy Oracle instead of
kicking in a few bucks to pay someone to add it to PostgreSQL.

OK then a quick call to Oracle would tell you that it's $295 per user, 5
user minimum.  If you want to use it on the web for public use that's 20
minimum or about $6,000.  Plus they suggest getting their application
server for another $195 / user - pushing your web site up by another
$4,000.

Go ahead.

I know if PostgreSQL did almost everything I needed I would rather:

A) Write it myself
B) Ask about it on the list and see if other people know how to do it
C) Expense out $500 or $1000 to contribute to PostgreSQL and then let the
   company write it off.

in that order ;-)

Chris

On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Herouth Maoz wrote:

> At 4:23 +0300 on 24/7/98, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
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> >     I don't believe any offence could be taken by this...my question
> > back is are those features that are currently missing of such an import to
> > you that you'd be willing to pay one of the developers to take the time to
> > focus on what you require?
>
> If I have to pay the authors for doing what I want, I am going to buy
> Informix or Oracle tomorrow... As I said, Postgres's main merit is that
> it's free.
>
> Herouth
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> Herouth Maoz, Internet developer.
> Open University of Israel - Telem project
> http://telem.openu.ac.il/~herutma
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