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	[quote name="Entropy Stew"][quote name="jeep"][quote name="Entropy Stew"]This is like the third time I am pointing this out - I CHOSE PG, NOT SB. SB WROTE NO CODE, THEREFORE HE WASN'T THE DECIDING FACTOR.[/quote] Sorry about that, he was still in #ga then and made it clear it was his decision. He took it on the chin from a lot of the OGs there on account of them being mssql users.[/quote] You're not around too often - that was mainly aimed at everyone else because I'm sure I've had to point that out on multiple occasions here. Hell, SB might have been the one to mention it first, I don't remember. The key thing to remember here is that he didn't write anything, so any decision me made in this matter had no affect on anything. SB in a nutshell, right there. [quote name="jeep"][quote]I was going to be doing PHP + Pg work in the near future, so I thought I 'd get a little utility out of writing this for free. Hosting was going to be on SB's box, so I wasn't worried about mobility to other hosting sites. Where I was working at the time also had hosting going so I could have just plugged my own machine in running Pg if need be.[/quote] I really wish I could do a better job communicating the greatness of some of these open source apps to the developers at my work. I know it's a tired issue out here on the internet, but in a professional environment it's tough to get past idiotic stuff like "oh I'm not sure about that program's credibility" (then a bunch of middle managers nod). Then when they're done deriding open source applications, they go back to their desks and use emacs to write code. They dropped a million dollars on Oracle licensing and nothing else changes, what a waste.[/quote] Well, Oracle has got the brand and pricing model where you can say "we have oracle, we are enterprise". I think it's mainly a CYA tactic by the decision-maker on what to use. "I bought the best DB, so whatever is wrong with it is your fault." The production system isn't running on emacs, after all. Then again we have a platform at work running on flat files (THANK GOD not the one I work on) so what do I know? -/ES/-[/quote]