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