From: Volker Hetzer <volker.hetzer@...>
Date: 2004-05-18T02:08:51+09:00
Subject: Re: What so special about PostgreSQL and other RDBMS?


"Gawnsoft" <xlucid@users.sourceforge.remove.this.antispam.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:gmn6a05ku51foi7aghpund00757onjjt33@4ax.com...
> >> By "tested the contarct" what you mean is you agreed to pay them
> >> completely on their terms and where satisified with the results they
> >> chose to give you.
> >So, in what way is it different from let's say, buying a cucumber?
>
> You are unlikely to be locked-in to purchase decision for your
> cucumber for very long.
Also, maintenance is more like an emergency ration. If you discover
it's rotten after the mergency has happened you are in trouble.

> IME they start to go runny after only a week or two in the fridge.
Right. With databases the feature stuff typically gets sorted out in the first
three months, maintenance took us about the same time (four or five service
requests) and everything else is a gamble.

Fortunately we always have some students here resulting in a healthy flow of
service requests, equivalencing a ration sampling regime.

Lots of Greetings!
Volker