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All your example are pretty much "we already have some old ancient shit that works only with Oracle", not actual features anyone might miss... > With PG? I don

• acomjean 4y ago
  My only experience with Oracle was we were using it at a startup at the turn of the century. I got tasked with asking them for a quote. They came back with one but offered pretty strong technical support. My boss, wise in the way of databases indicated that their support would involve using there apis locking us to them as opposed to the odbc drivers that let you switch databases easily. Those odbc drivers weren’t great on Linux at the time. The startup ran out of money a couple months later..
• dagw 4y ago
  The core developers literally sell support... One 'feature' Oracle has, that is very important to some large companies, is that they offer truly full stack support, from the hardware up to the application layer. If I buy support from some PG developers and they diagnose that the problem is actually with my RAID controller firmware or a bug in my inventory management software, will they still take responsibility for fixing it? Edit: Another aspect is how long will it take for one of those PG core developers to show up on site? Oracle already has a team of support engineers (either first or third party) in most major cities in the world.
  • lazyfanatic 4y ago
    Oracle Support has gotten absolutely terrible over the last four years. I support a full Oracle stack, and seeing all that beautiful Sun engineering turned to sludge because of poor support is really sad in many ways.
    • nnurmanov 4y ago