Hi Vivek,
>>>This is a slightly weird question. I am having this >>>debate with a friend of mine. We already had one Hot! Hot! discussion on it in oct last year... Where in Tarun initiated the Fire. And the honorable Raj Mathur, Shantanu and Supreet took active part in it. >>>Which is a better DB for serving enterprise needs >>>Postgresql or Oracle. The fire started after I made a comment "You are comparing an apple with a Water Melon :o) which unfortunately did not sound good to Tarun... "Let me make it very cleat that I don't have any hunch in open source and thats why I am in the list but my dear, facts are facts." --Gurpreet Singh Sachdeva (14th Oct 2003) >>>(comaprision in terms of support, cost, platform >>>independence, deployment in critical situations etc.) Support: Oracle has an edge over PostgreSQL. Poor support offered by PostgreSQL team. Oracle supports more than 10 plateforms including the features in Grid Computing and Mobile Technology. "Oracle pioneered grid computing for the enterprise. Only Oracle offers a complete commercial software infrastructure designed specifically for grid computing in the data center" Cost: Again it's a debatable thing but I *believe* cost is measured by ROI. And it depends on the requirement. For a very large enterprise, Oracle has proved to attain the ROI within a year or so. Oracle is expensive (BUT worth every single penny if it deployed on an enterprise platform). PostgreSQL is free. Plateform Independence: Oracle has support for every platform on this planet. It scales from a PDA to a MPP machine. PostgreSQL does have a good platform support BUT works well on few of them. Solaris, Windows, and other flavours. Deployment: Deployment in critical situations - what does 'critical means'? 24*7 or what ???. If 24*7 then Oracle has an edge over PostgreSQL. So, if you have deep pockets then opt for oracle else focus on PostgreSQL. "We absolutely know we made the right decision at the right time to implement Oracle E-Business Suite. The economy has changed and things are tougher; businesses are more competitive. EMC is now prepared to handle these changes because our investment in Oracle software has made us more efficient." -- Dave Ellard, Senior Vice President and CIO _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
