Now that’s an interesting story. Most Oracle users and customers will know that Oracle is not one of the most supportive suppliers when you don’t have the money. And by “the money”, I mean lots of money. It is a huge, and feature-rich database after all, but so is Postgres. There is a lot of innovation going on in the Postgres open source database, and it is enriched by EnterpriseDB to become an “enterprise-ready” RDBMS for 10% of the price that Oracle claims.
Read the full article here:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2011/12/27/enterprisedb-is-giving-oracle-a-run-for-its-money/