Re: Choosing a right database

One thing you should do is obtain and check references. Any vendor's salespeople MAY exaggerate the abilities of the product they are selling. As an aside, This is so prevalent that the United States Supreme Court passed down a decision which effectively stated that it was legal for salespeople to make exaggerated claims and that such exaggerations are not grounds for canceling a contract!

That being the case -- get references and check them. If a vendor can't provide references you have no way of knowing if the product will work or break under your workload. I know that you can get good references for both Informix and Oracle. I have no idea if that is the case for PostgresSQL.

regards
Jerry Gitomer

alla_at_sergey.com wrote in message <7puv39$f41$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>...
>First of all, thanks a lot to all of you for your responses.
>
>It gave me a lot of information to get convinced that Oracle
might be
>the better choice (sorry...)
>
>But I need to have one more question answered for our
management.
>
>Their choices were Oracle, Informix and PostgreSQL.
>
>None of you mentioned PostgreSQL. I assume it was because
PostgreSQL
>can't support such a huge database. But since I don't know
anything
>about PostgreSQL, I would really appreciate if you could tell me
what
>features (or lack of them) made you not mention this database
>
>Thanks again
>
>
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Received on Wed Aug 25 1999 - 10:57:15 CDT