Sadly, lots of people in positions of power still want scape goats, rather than proven results.
No, it could be that the OP's organization is looking for some proof of postgresql's results.
A lot of people are familiar with the criteria for evaluating a company or commercial product. Open source products have a different set of criteria that are sometimes a bit harder to pin down.
An advantage of a commercial product is that you can ask the vendor for references from people doing similar work to what you are doing. As we can see here, that's a bit more difficult for open source projects.
It's frustrating, but just one of the hurdles you have to face when advocating open source software. My first experience with this was in 1991, when I introduced Tcl and Perl into NEC. It did not happen until Larry Wall's book came out and I could answer the question "why are these guys doing this? how are they going to make money to continue to do this?" with "hey they're giving away the software and making a fortune on the books!"
Most surely. It's common when people with business degrees but poor understanding of the scientific method get involved.
As opposed to people with science degrees but poor understanding of business methods? :-)
Cheers, Mark
-- Mark Harrison Pixar Animation Studios
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