Re: [GENERAL] Are we losing momentum?
Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in>
From: Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in>
To: postgres list <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-04-15T08:42:35Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tuesday 15 April 2003 14:00, you wrote: > ** Reply to message from Tony Grant <tony@tgds.net> on 15 Apr 2003 08:12:04 > +0200 > Hi, > I've got to agree with this. > We have just been through the excercise of porting our quite extensive > fleet maintenance and accounting package from db2 to postgres. While the > port was not without pain :) the results are very good. We run windows > clients, (mostly), and whatever the database of choice performs best on for > the backend. We are seeing performance gains for the 20-100 user bracket of > a factor of 10 to 20 for switching from db2 to postgres on the same > platform. > We literally could not port this stuff to mysql. It does not have enough > feature to support us :) > Definitely the story is not that postgres competes with mysql/access but > rather with db2/oracle, and the point in time recovery coming in the next > release, just strengthens that story a whole lot more too. > > And, client reaction to an opensource (free :) database on linux has been > very enthusiastic. If you don't mind, could you please submit a short write up on your experience for submission on postgresql advocacy-Case Study section? You can either post it to posgresql advocacy list or send it to me offlist, if required. See http://advocacy.postgresql.org Shridhar