PostgreSQL left out in database brouhaha

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Dana, I think the reason that you'll see PosgreSQL left out of the database brouhaha is because the conversation this week is focused on the enterprise. While PostgreSQL may have great adoption for deployment within the enterprise, you won't find too many enterprises willing to bet their multi-million and billion dollar businesses on PostgreSQL. Building enterprise strength software has little to do with functionality, or talented community developers, it has a lot to do with having the tools, and support around the product for true 24x7x365 availability in environments where one minute of downtime is measured in hundredes of thousands, or millions of dollars . Ingres' proven track record in the enterprise certainly helps a CIO feel comfortable that he's making the right decision about open source databases for enterprise deployment.

I sense a bias in your coverage that may not be intended, but even the "Ingres" hyperlink in your blog leads to an article about PostgreSQL and the Ingres reference in that article is inaccurate. Ingres and PostgreSQL have a shared parentage but there isn't a single line of code in common between the two products. For a more balanced opinion of Ingres, I'd like to invite your readership to view my blog at http://blogs.ingres.com/emmamcgrattan

Warm regards

Emma McGrattan
Ingres Corp

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