Re: open source PostgreSQL not supportable?
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 01:19:10 -0500
Message-ID: <m38xtowqox.fsf_at_mobile.int.cbbrowne.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?
You're just making this up as you go along.
> Did the FTC agree that it meets the terms of FACTA?
> Who audited it for Basel II compliance?
Again, not relevant. Basel II is a regulatory mechanism to evaluate how financial institutions define their capitalization models. In a sense, it doesn't even exist yet. Some countries plan to implement the accord in 2008; that involves regulating _banks_, and their financial models, not the database engine implementors.
> 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.
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