tony_caduto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Tony Caduto) writes: > Another thing is this, how hard could it possibly be for a MS SQL DBA > or Oracle DBA to pick up using PostgreSQL? > I don't think it would take a decent admin of any database to come up > to speed in a very short time as long as they were interested in doing > so. It's not that big a stretch as long as there is interest. Those two are probably among the more painful from the specific perspective that both depend on, in effect, hiding the OS from the user to a great extent. PostgreSQL *doesn't* have layers to hide that there is an OS. In that particular sense, DB2 and Informix are probably moderately easier "jumps." There is also the factor that Oracle and Microsoft have the habit of pretending that their products define what the applications are, as opposed to merely being instances of the sort of application. If people have "drunk the koolaid" and think that "it *must* be like Oracle to be a proper DBMS," well, there's some painful unlearning ahead. Users of not-quite-so-smugly-market-leading systems are somewhat less likely to fall into that particular hole. -- let name="cbbrowne" and tld="linuxfinances.info" in name ^ "@" ^ tld;; http://linuxfinances.info/info/advocacy.html This Bloody Century "Early this century there was a worldwide socialist revolution. The great battles were then between International Socialism, National Socialism, and Democratic Socialism. Democratic Socialism won because the inertia of democracy prevented the socialism from doing as much damage here. Capitalism first reemerged from the ashes of National Socialism, in Germany and Japan. It is now reemerging from the ashes of International Socialism. Next? After all, inertia works both ways..." -- Mark Miller
