Greg,
> Again, these items are probably not your priorities or you wouldn't be
> using PostgreSQL, but I think the analyst is right that they're often
> those of the customers they're aiming the report at. I'm quite pleased
> at the ever expanding reach of applications PostgreSQL is appropriate
> for, but to be both fair and accurate here you really need to temper
> that with recognizing how many it's just not right for. Yet!
The problem isn't the commercial databases. I'd agree that we lag well
behind Oracle on most of those things.
It's the other OSDBs he's comparing against; I'm pretty familiar with
the capabilities of both INGRES and MySQL, and in most of those
categories, both of them lag behind PostgreSQL. Yet they were rated
higher because the analyst gets his data from the corporate marketing
departments, and does not actually do any independant analysis.
In other words, I made the mistake of being honest with the analyst
rather than hyping, which worked with Forrester in the past. Just not
anymore.
--Josh Berkus