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On 11 August 2015 at 10:51, David Gerard <[email protected]> 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. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
