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Re:A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools by tptacek on Saturday February 29, 2020 @12:22PM (#22451648)
It would be beyond weird for an IT department to have any say whatsoever in whether a development team used Postgres or Mariadb.
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Re:A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools by kasey_junk on Saturday February 29, 2020 @12:51PM (#22451856)
Not if the IT department is responsible for all vendor relationships and a support vendor exists.

This is not a operating mode I’d encourage but I’ve encountered it in companies in the past.

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Re:A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools by hnick on Sunday March 01, 2020 @08:56PM (#22460935)
Exactly, it's always MS SQL Server no questions asked :)

After all it's the "approved" solution around here.

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