Re: Migration to Postgres training

My organization switched from Oracle to Postgres 11 years ago. So, I could argue regarding "something harder to maintain", and regarding savings on licenses. Every specific situation is different, and requires specific tool.
Just don't want to start a "religious war" :)

Regards,
Igor Neyman

On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 10:47 AM Bill Ferguson <wbfergus_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> My organization is trying to push Postgres as well, but running some basic
> numbers, it wouldn't save my organization any money, just transfer the
> costs to a different account.
>
> It also doesn't even address the added costs of migrating every single
> Apex application into a whole new environment, with entirely new code. With
> any luck I'll be retiring next year and my tax dollars can either spent on
> keeping things working, or taking them all offline for several years while
> they get rewritten in something harder to maintain, and just as expensive
> to run.
>
> Bill Ferguson
>
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 6:51 PM Joshua D. Drake <jd_at_commandprompt.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> This email is not to cause any trouble but I know there are a lot of
>> Oracle shops pushing workloads to Postgres nowadays. There is a training
>> at Postgres Conference Silicon Valley in September on migrating from
>> Oracle to Postgres:
>>
>>
>> https://postgresconf.org/conferences/SV2019/program/proposals/oracle-to-postgresql-migration-tutorial
>>
>> The conference is organized via 501c3 and volunteers. We would love to
>> have everyone there.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> JD
>>
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