Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 26th Oct 2006 00:20 UTC, submitted by Anonymous
"No one saw this coming. People talked about Oracle making its own Linux, or buying a Linux company (Ubuntu?). But, the news that Oracle is erasing Red Hat's trademarks from Unbreakable Linux and supporting it for less than Red Hat is a bolt from the blue. Or, perhaps, I should say that Oracle is firing a shot at the heart of Red Hat, and commercial Linux? This really, really ticks me off." Apparently, Oracle announced that they will provide full enterprise support for Linux and so it competes with RH.
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a) you don't get RHEL for free (though you can get CentOS / WhiteBox for free)
b) With PostgreSQL for $O, you won't get a phone number which you can call and talk about your screwed-up database
c) There are scenarios, where "big" DBs like Oracle and DB/2 are the only sensible solutions. I don't think MySQL or PostgreSQL would handle multi-GB tablespaces stored in multiple datafiles... Sometimes it's not "features", it's "how big can my DB be and still run and still be manageable".
And sometimes it's about having someone to call/blame when things break. In the end, it's a free market - pay if it's worth to you, don't pay if it's not worth.