Re: open source PostgreSQL not supportable?

From: Bruce Lewis <brlspam_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 11 Jan 2006 14:12:57 -0500
Message-ID: <nm9oe2imvd2.fsf@no-knife.mit.edu>

DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> writes:

> But lets put a bit of common sense into this discussion. What auditor is
> going to risk government intervention in their life by signing off on a
> financial statement from which they have no guarantee that the numbers
> are real?

Every auditor.

Every single one.

There is never a guarantee that the numbers are real. The best you can do is to document who it is that you're trusting and the procedures they appeared to follow. Is it possible for an auditor to say that a DBA or system admin cannot be a trusted party, and a closed-source database vendor must be trusted instead? Yes, it is possible. Has anyone actually gotten that from an auditor? Not to anyone's knowledge in this discussion, including you.

From what everyone here has said, including you, there is no reason to think one cannot comply with Sarbanes-Oxley while using PostgreSQL. Received on Wed Jan 11 2006 - 13:12:57 CST