"Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Of course, Oracle could tank the market by offering support at > un-competitive prices, but I can't think of a reason for them to do that > off the top of my head. They might hope that they could drive the existing support companies out of business (assuming they didn't get convicted of antitrust violations first --- which would be an open-and-shut case, but with the Republicans in office they probably wouldn't get prosecuted :-(). Then they raise their rates to make lotsa money, or maybe they'd think they could drop support at that point and the project would die for lack of commercial support. (They seem to understand open-source poorly enough that they might think that would happen.) I don't see any of this happening though. As suggested upthread, the very *last* thing Oracle wants is to raise the visibility and credibility of Postgres by a couple of orders of magnitude --- which is exactly what they'd be doing by offering support for it, even if the support was only temporary. The effects of getting the word out would persist long afterwards. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
