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Databases at what Cost??

From: Deepa Vasudevan <deepav_at_pol.net>
Date: 1997/08/02
Message-ID: <33E38A80.3519@pol.net>

Did you ever do the analysis on the cost of acquiring the commercial databases like Oracle, Sybase, Informix, MS SQL server?? Now read below and look at the results :-

U.S. President Bill Clinton says "No taxes on Internet Products!" (And it means NO TAXES on PostgreSQL !!)

American companies MUST take advantage of this tax policy and it will save you/companies millions of dollars!!

Commercial databases(like Oracle, Sybase, Informix) pay federal taxes (employees pay), state taxes(employees pay), sales tax, employment taxes, social security taxes,
health care for employees, bunch of benefits for employees, marketing and advertisement costs.
All these costs do not go directly for the development of the database.  When you buy a commercial database, about 60% of amount goes to  taxes+benefits, 20% for marketing, 10% for profit margin and the balance 10% for actual database R&D costs. Hence the real worth of  the database is much less(approx. about 10%). (A bare skeleton goes to database and the meat to various taxes!!).

Also commercial databases have to pay for buildings/real-estates and purchase Unix machines, install and maintain them. All of these  costs are passed onto customers(to YOU!!).

PostgreSQL has the advantage over commercial databases as there is no direct tax since it is made on the internet. A very vast group of American companies contribute to the development of the PostgreSQL.
 For example, if there are one million companies in U.S.A and each  contribute about $10 (worth of software to PostgreSQL) than each and every company will get ten million dollars!! This is the magic  of software development on internet.

What is it?



PostgreSQL Version 6.1.1 RDBMS database ANSI SQL 92 compliant and  is a free database, complete source code is given to you and is a Relational Database System compliant with ANSI SQL92 and SQL89 and runs on diverse hardware platforms and Operating systems. Millions of PostgreSQL is installed as data servers, data center servers, Web databases, WWW http database servers and application servers.

PostgreSQL is the ONLY FREE database in the world which supports ANSI SQL standards like SQL92, SQL89, ISO SQL. It is much more advanced and is a object oriented relational database. PostgreSQL can store more data types than traditional datatypes like integer, characters,etc. - it can store object datatypes like classes (Version 7.0 will make this capabilities more advanced).

PostgreSQL runs on Solaris, SunOS, HPUX, AIX, Linux, Irix, and each & every flavor of unix. Port to Windows 95/NT is underway.

In america PostgreSQL is also called
as 'pgsql' (pro-nounced as "pee-gee-sequel").

How can I trust it?



Regression test package is included in the distribution and let your computer do the verfication for you to check if all the ANSI SQL 92 /ISO SQL commands run as per technical specifications. The test package has hundreds of SQL statements which will checked very quickly by your computer. Ofcourse, you can add even more tests!!

What is it's description?


  Title:             PostgreSQL ANSI SQL92/ANSI SQL89 RDBMS Database 
		     (Relational Database Management System)
  Version:           6.1.1 
  Date of Release :  14 June 97
  Age:	     	     PostgreSQL is 12 years old. Developed since 1985
  Description:       Powerful RDBMS database like Oracle, Sybase, 
		     Informix

  Authors:           Developed by millions/universities/companies on 
		     internet for the past 12 YEARS

  Primary WWW:       http://www.postgresql.org/
  Secondary WWW:     http://logical.thought.net/postgres95/
		     http://www.itm.tu-clausthal.de/mirrors/postgres95/
		     http://s2k-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:8000/postgres95/

"Binaries only" distribution of PostgreSQL : You can run PostgreSQL
without

		compiling the source. Get binaries for Intel-Linux from
		ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/i386/  postgresql-6.1-6.i386.rpm		

  Primary FTP:       ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub
  Secondary ftp:     ftp://ftp.chicks.net/pub/postgresql
		     ftp://ftp.emsi.priv.at/pub/postgres/
		ftp://ftp.itm.tu-clausthal.de/pub/mirrors/postgres95
		     ftp://rocker.sch.bme.hu/pub/mirrors/postgreSQL
		     ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/dbms/postgres95
		     ftp://ftp.luga.or.at/pub/postgres95
		     ftp://postgres95.vnet.net:/pub/postgres95

  A Variant of PostgreSQL is Commercialised:
		     PostgreSQL (variant) is commercialised & sold by
		     Illustra Inc (Illustra was bought over by 
		     Informix Inc.)
		     http://www.illustra.com

What Can it do for me?



  GUI FrontEnd Tool for PostgreSQL :
		     PostgreSQL has TCL/TK library in distribution. 
		     TCL/TK is a Rapid Application Development tool, more
		     powerful than Microsoft Visual Basic. Develop once
		     and run it everywhere on NT, Win 95, Linux, all unixes!!
		     To get TCL/TK -
	             http://sunscript.sun.com/
		     http://sunscript.sun.com/TclTkCore/
		     ftp://ftp.sunlabs.com/pub/tcl/tcl8.0a2.tar.Z

  ODBC Drivers for PostgreSQL :
		     http://www.ids.net/~bjepson/freeODBC/
		     http://www.openlinksw.com

  UDBC Drivers for PostgreSQL: UDBC is a static version of ODBC 
		     independent of driver managers and DLL support,
		     used to embed database connectivity support 
		     directly into applications.
		     http://www.openlinksw.com

  JDBC Drivers supported : Sun's Java connectivity to PostgreSQL
		     http://www.demon.co.uk/finder/postgres/index.html
		     ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/people/rst/rst-jdbc.tar.gz
		     http://www.openlinksw.com

  Java RAD Tool for PostgreSQL:	Java Rapid Application Tool for 
		     PostgreSQL 
	             http://www.man.ac.uk/~whaley/kj/kanch.html

  Java Classes for PostgreSQL : 
		     http://www.blackdown.org

  Perl 5 interface for PostgreSQL : It included in the distribution of 
		PostgreSQL. Check in src/pgsql_perl5 directory.
		     Email: E.Mergl_at_bawue.de
		Perl Home page : http://www.perl.com/perl/index.html

  Windows Interactive Query Tool for PostgreSQL (WISQL):
		     Email: keidav_at_whidbey.com
  			http://www.troubador.com/~keidav/index.html
		     http://www.ucolick.org/~de/tcl_syb/wisql.html
		     Email: de_at_ucolick.org
		     Identical to Microsoft SQL server WISQL!

  Interactive Query Tool - ISQL (Character command line terminals):
		     Included in the distribution, called PSQL. Very
		     similar to Sybase ISQL, Oracle SQLplus.

  PostgreSQL 4GL for web database applications:
 		     http://www.man.ac.uk/~whaley/ag/appgen.html

  Web Database Design/Implementation tool for PostgreSQL:
		     http://www.oswego.edu/Earp

  WWW Web interface for PostgresSQL:
		     http://www.cis-computer.com/dbengine/ 

  Apache Webserver Module for PostgreSQL:
		     http://www.neosoft.com/neowebscript/

  PHP/FI Server-side html-embedded scripting language for PostgreSQL 
		     (WWW Interface Tool):
		     http://www.vex.net/php

  Python Interface for PostgreSQL : PyGres95 is a python interface 
	for the PostgreSQL. It is available from
ftp://ftp.via.ecp.fr/pub/python/contrib/Database/PyGres95-1.0b.tar.gz

  Wdb-p95 Gateway between PostgreSQL and the WWW: It is at

        http://www.eol.ists.ca/~dunlop/wdb-p95/

"C" language Interface for PostgreSQL: Included in distribution

		     'libpq'. Similar to Oracle OCI, Sybase DB-lib, 
		      Informix CLI libraries.


"C++" language Interface for PostgreSQL: Included in distribution
'libpq++'. PostgreSQL ESQL/C (Embedded C Pre-compiler) like Oracle Pro*C, Informix ESQL/C: ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/linus Email : linus_at_epact.se Japanese Kanji Code with PostgreSQL: It is at the following site ftp://ftp.sra.co.jp/pub/cmd/postgres/ Tested Platforms: Linux, MkLinux, Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, AIX, Digital Unix, NetBSD, FreeBSD, BSDi, Irix, NEXTSTEP, SCO, Unixware, etc All flavors of unix. Use gcc, gmake for Win NT/95 to compile on win32, GNU gcc is available for win32. Check this site - http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32 Go here and get the file cdk.exe (self-extractor) OR use the "UNIX on NT" tool from http://www.softway.com Mailing Lists: See the Mailing Lists Item on the main web page. Email questions to: pgsql-questions_at_postgresql.org pgsql-hackers_at_postgresql.org To subscribe or unsubscribe from the list, send mail to pgsql-questions-request_at_postgresql.org pgsql-hackers-request_at_postgresql.org The body of the message should contain the single line subscribe (or) unsubscribe Documentations: Included in the distribution is the 'User Guide' for PostgreSQL, 'Implementation Guide' detailing database internals of PostgreSQL, online manuals, online manuals in HTML formats. Also manuals in Postscript format for printing hard copies. Reference docs: Useful reference textbooks : "Understanding the New SQL: A Complete Guide" - by Jim Melton and Alan R.Simon Morgan Kaufman Publisher is one of best SQL books. Hundreds of other titles on SQL are available! Check out a bookstore. Technical support for PostgreSQL : You can purchase technical support from the following companies/corporations - http://www.redhat.com http://www.caldera.com http://www.wgs.com http://www.yggdrasil.com Free Unix: Get a free Linux OS - a quality solution from operating system to database to front-end gui application - Check out these sites: http://www.lsl.com http://www.caldera.com http://www.redhat.com

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Basu Received on Sat Aug 02 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT

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