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Re: SAPDB was DRAFT: v7.3 Release Announcement


  • From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
  • To: "Derek Barrett" <derekbarrett(at)graffiti(dot)net>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: SAPDB was DRAFT: v7.3 Release Announcement
  • Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 16:30:17 -0700
  • Message-id: <200210281530.17174.josh@agliodbs.com> <text/plain>

Derek,

> Well, I do agree with Postgres being older and more
> established, but as far as name recognition goes,
> I would put SAP as being ahead in that category
> by a wide margin.

SAP is well-known; SAP DB is not.   I try to mention it whenever I list off OS 
databases (along with Phoenix) because nobody seems to have heard of it, and 
it's a natural for Oracle migrators.

> Their free db also has built in replication.

Yeah.  I wish we could use their implementation, but the back-end 
architectures are radically different.

-- 
-Josh Berkus
 Aglio Database Solutions
 San Francisco




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