I agree with David's comment. The business I work for recently proposed a FOSS based solution for a client, but were told no FOSS solutions would be considered. We had a subcontractor offer a support contract for an application based on the same FOSS components, but with a support contract. This was perfectly acceptable to our client, who now has a working solution, for which they pay annual maintenance, in return for a lack of internal liability. For many businesses, risk avoidance is a core driver. What they require is someone else to blame if things go wrong, hence the companies making a living with contracts for Postgres support. Cheers, Brent Wood Brent Wood DBA/GIS consultant NIWA, Wellington New Zealand >>> David Fetter <david@xxxxxxxxxx> 09/01/08 6:09 PM >>> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 10:44:38PM -0400, Guy Rouillier wrote: > M2Y wrote: >> >> Why most enterprises prefer Oracle than Postgres even though it is >> free and has a decent enough user community. > > Databases are a critical part of many companies' business. I work > for telecom company, and if we were to lose our databases, we'd be > out of business, period. So, "free and decent enough" are not good > enough. If you are going to bet your business on anything, you > want to be as sure as possible that "it" is reliable and that you > can expect quick action if "it" should break. What they want to have is a huge entity they can blame when everything goes wrong. They're not interested in the actual response times or even in the much more important time-to-fix because once they've blamed Oracle, they know the responsibility is no longer on their shoulders. 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 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
