We run our ERP/MRP on Oracle ($millions in licensing/maintenance) but our manufacturing operations on PostgreSQL (FOSS DB and homegrown software). <shrug> One

We run our ERP/MRP on Oracle ($millions in licensing/maintenance) but our manufacturing operations on PostgreSQL (FOSS DB and homegrown software). <shrug> One is not necessarily "better" than the other, but it sure is nice not to have to rely on an enormous, leeching, sales-driven corporation for a core system.... We have tended to use MSSQL+C# historically for business apps, and it doesn't sit well with the people writing checks when you tell them you need multi-$k extra for the DB license to run their process automation utility (especially with MS's new 2012 licensing model). It doesn't sit well with the CIO when the alternative is a six or seven figure EA. A company like Stackoverflow is nothing like a large corporation in terms of apps/DBs.