As far as that goes it's a reasonable demonstration. I suspect many people will note how insignificant the actual installation time is in the context of the en

As far as that goes it's a reasonable demonstration. I suspect many people will note how insignificant the actual installation time is in the context of the entire lifecycle. You might also point out the cost difference. Depending on the terms under which you must license it, the MS SQL option could cost $25,000 vs Postgres at ... $0. To a bigcorp that's nothing, but when you start running a bunch of those servers it adds up fast. http://store.microsoft.com/microsoft/SQL-Server-2008-Enterprise-Edition/product/E06A3697/?WT.mc_id=sqlserversite_enterpriselink http://store.microsoft.com/microsoft/SQL-Server-2008-Enterpr... Personally, I prefer Postgres to MS SQL because 1) it runs on *nix; 2) It's open-source; 3) significantly cheaper; 4) supports recursive queries; etc.