For those of you who are trying to promote PostGreSQL or simply to
demonstrate PG's potential capabilities, you might look at this article in
Network Fusion about Netezza: They announced their "NPS 8000" database
appliance that runs on Linux and is built on PostGreSQL. According to the
article, they achieve 300%-1000% performance increases in BI applications
compared to traditional (eeeh... Oracle-Sun-EMC ) systems for half of the
price.
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2002/1007infranetezza.html
http://www.netezza.com/index.html
If this has already been mentioned here please disregard.
Markus
Disclaimer: I am NOT affiliated with Netezza, nor PostGreSQL, nor Oracle,
Network Fusion nor ...
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