On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 11:29:32AM -0700, M2Y wrote: > Hello, > > I am a CS graduate and I have a brief idea of Postgres and Oracle. > But, I dont have an in-depth knowledge in any of them. I have a > couple of questions and > > I want to compare both of them in terms of functionality, > performance, advantages and disadvantages. > > Why most enterprises prefer Oracle than Postgres even though it is > free and has a decent enough user community. That depends which enterprises. At the moment, people who know Postgres are not common, which gives them advantages in negotiations. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <david@xxxxxxxxxx> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter@xxxxxxxxx Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate