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Did you ever do the analysis on the cost of acquiring the commercial databases like Oracle, Sybase, Informix, MS SQL server?? Now read below and look at the results :-
U.S. President Bill Clinton says "No taxes on Internet Products!" (And it means NO TAXES on PostgreSQL !!)
American companies MUST take advantage of this tax policy and it will save you/companies millions of dollars!!
Commercial databases(like Oracle, Sybase, Informix) pay federal taxes
(employees pay), state taxes(employees pay), sales tax, employment
taxes, social security taxes,
health care for employees, bunch of benefits for employees,
marketing and advertisement costs.
All these costs do not go directly for the development of the database.
When you buy a commercial database, about 60% of amount goes to
taxes+benefits, 20% for marketing, 10% for profit margin and the
balance 10% for actual database R&D costs. Hence the real worth of
the database is much less(approx. about 10%). (A bare skeleton
goes to database and the meat to various taxes!!).
Also commercial databases have to pay for buildings/real-estates and purchase Unix machines, install and maintain them. All of these costs are passed onto customers(to YOU!!).
PostgreSQL has the advantage over commercial databases as there
is no direct tax since it is made on the internet. A very vast
group of American companies contribute to the development of
the PostgreSQL.
For example, if there are one million companies in U.S.A and each
contribute about $10 (worth of software to PostgreSQL) than each
and every company will get ten million dollars!! This is the magic
of software development on internet.
What is it?
PostgreSQL is the ONLY FREE database in the world which supports ANSI SQL standards like SQL92, SQL89, ISO SQL. It is much more advanced and is a object oriented relational database. PostgreSQL can store more data types than traditional datatypes like integer, characters,etc. - it can store object datatypes like classes (Version 7.0 will make this capabilities more advanced).
PostgreSQL runs on Solaris, SunOS, HPUX, AIX, Linux, Irix, and each & every flavor of unix. Port to Windows 95/NT is underway.
In america PostgreSQL is also called
as 'pgsql' (pro-nounced as "pee-gee-sequel").
How can I trust it?
What is it's description?
Title: PostgreSQL ANSI SQL92/ANSI SQL89 RDBMS Database (Relational Database Management System) Version: 6.1.1 Date of Release : 14 June 97 Age: PostgreSQL is 12 years old. Developed since 1985 Description: Powerful RDBMS database like Oracle, Sybase, Informix Authors: Developed by millions/universities/companies on internet for the past 12 YEARS Primary WWW: http://www.postgresql.org/ Secondary WWW: http://logical.thought.net/postgres95/ http://www.itm.tu-clausthal.de/mirrors/postgres95/ http://s2k-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:8000/postgres95/
"Binaries only" distribution of PostgreSQL : You can run PostgreSQL
without
compiling the source. Get binaries for Intel-Linux from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/i386/ postgresql-6.1-6.i386.rpm Primary FTP: ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub Secondary ftp: ftp://ftp.chicks.net/pub/postgresql ftp://ftp.emsi.priv.at/pub/postgres/ ftp://ftp.itm.tu-clausthal.de/pub/mirrors/postgres95 ftp://rocker.sch.bme.hu/pub/mirrors/postgreSQL ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/dbms/postgres95 ftp://ftp.luga.or.at/pub/postgres95 ftp://postgres95.vnet.net:/pub/postgres95 A Variant of PostgreSQL is Commercialised: PostgreSQL (variant) is commercialised & sold by Illustra Inc (Illustra was bought over by Informix Inc.) http://www.illustra.com
What Can it do for me?
PostgreSQL has TCL/TK library in distribution. TCL/TK is a Rapid Application Development tool, more powerful than Microsoft Visual Basic. Develop once and run it everywhere on NT, Win 95, Linux, all unixes!! To get TCL/TK - http://sunscript.sun.com/ http://sunscript.sun.com/TclTkCore/ ftp://ftp.sunlabs.com/pub/tcl/tcl8.0a2.tar.Z ODBC Drivers for PostgreSQL : http://www.ids.net/~bjepson/freeODBC/ http://www.openlinksw.com UDBC Drivers for PostgreSQL: UDBC is a static version of ODBC independent of driver managers and DLL support, used to embed database connectivity support directly into applications. http://www.openlinksw.com JDBC Drivers supported : Sun's Java connectivity to PostgreSQL http://www.demon.co.uk/finder/postgres/index.html ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/people/rst/rst-jdbc.tar.gz http://www.openlinksw.com Java RAD Tool for PostgreSQL: Java Rapid Application Tool for PostgreSQL http://www.man.ac.uk/~whaley/kj/kanch.html Java Classes for PostgreSQL : http://www.blackdown.org Perl 5 interface for PostgreSQL : It included in the distribution of PostgreSQL. Check in src/pgsql_perl5 directory. Email: E.Mergl_at_bawue.de Perl Home page : http://www.perl.com/perl/index.html Windows Interactive Query Tool for PostgreSQL (WISQL): Email: keidav_at_whidbey.com http://www.troubador.com/~keidav/index.html http://www.ucolick.org/~de/tcl_syb/wisql.html Email: de_at_ucolick.org Identical to Microsoft SQL server WISQL! Interactive Query Tool - ISQL (Character command line terminals): Included in the distribution, called PSQL. Very similar to Sybase ISQL, Oracle SQLplus. PostgreSQL 4GL for web database applications: http://www.man.ac.uk/~whaley/ag/appgen.html Web Database Design/Implementation tool for PostgreSQL: http://www.oswego.edu/Earp WWW Web interface for PostgresSQL: http://www.cis-computer.com/dbengine/ Apache Webserver Module for PostgreSQL: http://www.neosoft.com/neowebscript/ PHP/FI Server-side html-embedded scripting language for PostgreSQL (WWW Interface Tool): http://www.vex.net/php Python Interface for PostgreSQL : PyGres95 is a python interface for the PostgreSQL. It is available fromftp://ftp.via.ecp.fr/pub/python/contrib/Database/PyGres95-1.0b.tar.gz
Wdb-p95 Gateway between PostgreSQL and the WWW: It is at
http://www.eol.ists.ca/~dunlop/wdb-p95/
"C" language Interface for PostgreSQL: Included in distribution
'libpq'. Similar to Oracle OCI, Sybase DB-lib, Informix CLI libraries.
"C++" language Interface for PostgreSQL: Included in distribution
'libpq++'. PostgreSQL ESQL/C (Embedded C Pre-compiler) like Oracle Pro*C, Informix ESQL/C: ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/linus Email : linus_at_epact.se Japanese Kanji Code with PostgreSQL: It is at the following site ftp://ftp.sra.co.jp/pub/cmd/postgres/ Tested Platforms: Linux, MkLinux, Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, AIX, Digital Unix, NetBSD, FreeBSD, BSDi, Irix, NEXTSTEP, SCO, Unixware, etc All flavors of unix. Use gcc, gmake for Win NT/95 to compile on win32, GNU gcc is available for win32. Check this site - http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32 Go here and get the file cdk.exe (self-extractor) OR use the "UNIX on NT" tool from http://www.softway.com Mailing Lists: See the Mailing Lists Item on the main web page. Email questions to: pgsql-questions_at_postgresql.org pgsql-hackers_at_postgresql.org To subscribe or unsubscribe from the list, send mail to pgsql-questions-request_at_postgresql.org pgsql-hackers-request_at_postgresql.org The body of the message should contain the single line subscribe (or) unsubscribe Documentations: Included in the distribution is the 'User Guide' for PostgreSQL, 'Implementation Guide' detailing database internals of PostgreSQL, online manuals, online manuals in HTML formats. Also manuals in Postscript format for printing hard copies. Reference docs: Useful reference textbooks : "Understanding the New SQL: A Complete Guide" - by Jim Melton and Alan R.Simon Morgan Kaufman Publisher is one of best SQL books. Hundreds of other titles on SQL are available! Check out a bookstore. Technical support for PostgreSQL : You can purchase technical support from the following companies/corporations - http://www.redhat.com http://www.caldera.com http://www.wgs.com http://www.yggdrasil.com Free Unix: Get a free Linux OS - a quality solution from operating system to database to front-end gui application - Check out these sites: http://www.lsl.com http://www.caldera.com http://www.redhat.com
#include <all standard disclaimers - opinions are mine only>
Basu Received on Sat Aug 02 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT
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