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Re:Microsoft Reports Record Revenue of $24.52 Billion in Sec... by powertower on Thursday January 23, 2014 @06:32PM (#7112255)
Or perhaps it's because they have solutions, features, industry leading backwards-compatibility, competent support channels, and a slew of other things - that their nearest competitor does not have.
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Re:Microsoft Reports Record Revenue of $24.52 Billion in Sec... by code_duck on Friday January 24, 2014 @12:24AM (#7113465)
I assume you mean their nearest competitor for consumer and small to medium business desktop operating systems? Because that statement isn't true for say, mobile phones, video game systems, cloud services, or database, enterprise, and web server software.
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Re:Microsoft Reports Record Revenue of $24.52 Billion in Sec... by MichaelGG on Friday January 24, 2014 @04:12AM (#7114023)
Right, now that Postgres 9.3 just added materialized views, perhaps they'll have a super-easy system for replication, DR, and HA.
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Re:Microsoft Reports Record Revenue of $24.52 Billion in Sec... by code_duck on Friday January 24, 2014 @02:26PM (#7117209)
Microsoft offers product to compete at many different levels of the market. Postgres is their competition for some needs, but I would think that if you need more advanced features like you mention it would be more of a comparison to Oracle and db2.
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