Re: [HACKERS] Support (was: Democracy and organisation)

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From: Tim Hart <tjhart(at)mac(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Support (was: Democracy and organisation)
Date: 2002-06-27 16:57:57
Message-ID: 2218071.1025197077335.JavaMail.tjhart@mac.com
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On Thursday, 27, 2002, at 10:07AM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:

>Or from a financial perspective: An enterprise MS SQL 2000 user can
>expect to pay, under Licensing 6.0, about $10,000 - $20,000 a year in
>licnesing fees -- *not including any support*. Just $2000-$5000 buys
>you a pretty good $10 million software failure insurance policy. Do
>the math.
>
>-Josh Berkus

The statement above has brought something to light that I had never really considered...
Will an insurance company issue a software failure policy against PostgreSQL? If so, that may help me in my own struggles to convince managment that they're current approach to mitigating their risk is not only flawed, but *financially impracticle*.