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A comment on The One in Which I Call Out Hacker News (2009).

Re:The One in Which I Call Out Hacker News (2009) by pyre on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @07:12PM (#6486069)
He compares PostgreSQL (Open Source) to MS-SQL (Proprietary) for one feature (initial setup), but I don't see him comparing things like sqlplus (Oracle/Proprietary) to psql (PostgreSQL/Open Source).
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Re:The One in Which I Call Out Hacker News (2009) by gecko on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @07:47PM (#6486221)
What conclusion did you expect I'd draw, had I compared those two? I have zero experience with Oracle, and copious amounts with both PostgreSQL and MS SQL, so I was focusing on things I actually knew about.
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