^2018 Pgcon was an interesting place to meet people trying to get off old, proprietary DBs and into FOSS DBs. In fact I was there to help with one such effort.

^2018 Pgcon was an interesting place to meet people trying to get off old, proprietary DBs and into FOSS DBs. In fact I was there to help with one such effort. Incredible the money old DB licensing costs for often trivial use cases. Though some folks were locked in by compliance requirements. Strange that many are government since SQL was invented to avoid vendor lock-in. I guess Oracle and friends capture the procurement process.