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Re:Building a Cloud Database from Scratch: Why We Moved from... by pjmlp on Friday February 10, 2023 @06:27AM (#34738316)
Betting against Postgres all the time, since the .com age I have mostly used Oracle and SQL Server, and Postgrest only in a single projec that was alive during 4 years.

There was also Informix, SYBASE and DB2, but those hardly matter nowadays.

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Re:Building a Cloud Database from Scratch: Why We Moved from... by aliqot on Friday February 10, 2023 @10:20AM (#34740755)
Why doesn't DB2 matter?
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Re:Building a Cloud Database from Scratch: Why We Moved from... by pjmlp on Friday February 10, 2023 @12:35PM (#34742893)
It still does, however it is mostly for IBM customers on Aix, IBM i and z/OS, not was widespread as it once was.
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