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On 11 August 2015 at 10:51, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
This is an ... amazing piece. This Oracle executive (read: someone who is high up enough that their words won't be edited) seriously thought this made Oracle look competent and trustworthy:
https://blogs.oracle.com/maryanndavidson/entry/those_who_can_t_do
It's one of the finest marketing posts for Postgres, and for free software in general, that I can recall this year. It really makes the point, and I suggest circulating it widely.
(My day job is in the midst of an Oracle->Postgres migration. It's going *really well*. If you're stuck somewhere that's on Oracle, show them this post, explain the serious security and competence concerns it raises, and get moving to Postgres. One of the nicest things about it: we give every app its own cluster of two PG boxes, because you have the freedom to just do that instead of running a centralised monster box with an expensive license. It turns out that just everything not having to play nice with others makes stuff stupendously easier to manage. And that's entirely before the benefits of approachable developers and viewable code.)
- d.