Re: open source PostgreSQL not supportable? (Was: Challenging SQL Query Problem. Can you solve it?)

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 10:53:10 -0800
Message-ID: <1136746384.879294_at_jetspin.drizzle.com>


Marc Schoechlin wrote:
> Hi !
>
> DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> schrieb:
>
>

>>Some day open-source databases may be competitive with those built by
>>the big three just as Linux is now competitive in the area of operating
>>systems. But that day, for databases, is not today nor anytime within
>>the next two to three years.

>
>
> This is FUD :-)
>
> I used postgresql in software-projects for the first time
> in 2001 for really business-critical systems without any
> real problems or limitations.

And precisely when did your implementation pass an ISO9000 audit?

And which accounting firm agreed to sign off on the financial statements it produced?

Did the FTC agree that it meets the terms of FACTA?

Who audited it for Basel II compliance?

Or HIPAA?

Basically what you have written reads as: "I threw together something and it runs."

Not to be too flip here ... but so can my mother.

The question most organizations would want to know is whether it will survive a lawsuit filed by a disgrunted stockholder ... or survive an audit by the Internal Revenue Service. My guess is you'd be looking for a bankruptcy attorney if you charged for it.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
http://www.psoug.org
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
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Received on Sun Jan 08 2006 - 19:53:10 CET

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