On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 23:27:24 -0500,
Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> * Bruno Wolff III (bruno@wolff.to) wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 17:50:44 -0600,
> > Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote:
> > > Short of being compelled by law to open our records, I'm not
> > > comfortable providing any performance comparison which names the
> > > vendor.
> >
> > An open records request inquiring about vendors and contracts with the
> > State of Wisconsin could probably turn up the answer if anyone really
> > wanted to know.
>
> About which vendors they use and what contracts they have and you might
> be able to figure out which vendors have such a clause. I don't know
> that such a request could compel the performance data out associated
> with a specific vendor when that's clearly against a license the state
> is currently under.
But we already have an unofficial comment on the performance, we just don't
know what database postgres is being compared to.