Databases - What is inflating them??!! Optimize cost.

ACB (Actual Cost of Database) Report ------------------------------------ Do you how much it costs you in taxes whenever you buy a database software like Oracle, Sybase, Informix, MS SQL server? Now read below and look at the analysis and ways to avoid paying the taxes and yet continuing your business with alternatives :- Good News : U.S. President Bill Clinton says "No taxes on Internet Products!" (And it means NO TAXES on PostgreSQL !!) American companies MUST take advantage of this tax policy and it will save you/companies millions of dollars!! Commercial databases(like Oracle, Sybase, Informix, Microsoft) pay the following taxes, below oracle corp is taken as an example but it applies to ALL OF sybase, informix and Microsoft SQL server, break-up of which is like this - Oracle corp federal income taxes : 22% Oracle corp pay state taxes : 4% Oracle corp pay employment taxes : 5% Oracle corp pay social security taxes : 7.5% Oracle corp pay medicare taxes : 2% Oracle corp pay employee health insurance : 5% Oracle corp pay employee IRA, sick leaves : 4% Oracle corp pay employee benefits : 2% Oracle corp pay marketing/advertisements : 10% Oracle corp building costs/utilities : 10% Oracle corp computer costs/Unix OSes cost : 5% Oracle corp actual cost of R&D : 15% Oracle corp profit margin : (100-total of above)% is take home balance. Now the employees of oracle corp !!! ---> Oracle employees pay federal income taxes : 22% Oracle employees pay state taxes : 4% Oracle employees pay social security tax : 7.5% Oracle employees pay medicare tax : 3% Oracle employees pay unemployment-insuranc: 3% Oracle employees pay disability-insuranc : 1% Oracle employees pay motor-vehicle tax : 2% Oracle employees take home balance : (100-total of above)% Now the Database customers!!! ---> Database Customers pay Sales tax : 7.5% Database upgrades costs(one year) : 10% Even though Oracle corp and Oracle employees are paying these taxes but WHO is the REAL guy paying all these taxes?? Ofcourse, it is the brain dead, dull-head database customers!!! As you can see very clearly, all these costs do not go directly for the development of the database. When you buy a commercial database, about 70% of amount goes to taxes+misc, and the balance 15% for actual database R&D costs. Hence the real worth and value of the database is only 15%!!! (A bare skeleton goes to database and the meat to various taxes!!). Now, wake-up, arise and awake and declare a WAR on taxes with PostgreSQL!! PostgreSQL has the advantage over commercial databases as there is no direct tax since it is made on the internet. A very vast group of American companies contribute to the development of the PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL is 100% free and complete source code is given to you!! What is it? - "It is 100% FREE OF COST!!" ----------- PostgreSQL Version 6.1.1 RDBMS database ANSI SQL 92 compliant and is a free database, complete source code is given to you and is a Relational Database System compliant with ANSI SQL92 and SQL89 and runs on diverse hardware platforms and Operating systems. Millions of PostgreSQL is installed as data servers, data center servers, Web databases, WWW http database servers and application servers. PostgreSQL is the ONLY FREE database in the world which supports ANSI SQL standards like SQL92, SQL89, ISO SQL. It is much more advanced and is a object oriented relational database. PostgreSQL can store more data types than traditional datatypes like integer, characters,etc. - it can store object datatypes like classes (Version 7.0 will make this capabilities more advanced). PostgreSQL runs on Solaris, SunOS, HPUX, AIX, Linux, Irix, and each & every flavor of unix. Port to Windows 95/NT is underway. How can I trust it? ------------------- Regression test package is included in the distribution and let your computer do the verfication for you to check if all the ANSI SQL 92 /ISO SQL commands run as per technical specifications. The test package has hundreds of SQL statements which will checked very quickly by your computer. Ofcourse, you can add even more tests!! What is it's description? ------------------------- Title: PostgreSQL ANSI SQL92/ANSI SQL89 RDBMS Database (Relational Database Management System) Version: 6.1.1 Date of Release : 14 June 97 Age: PostgreSQL is 12 years old. Developed since 1985 Description: Powerful RDBMS database like Oracle, Sybase, Informix Authors: Developed by millions/universities/companies on internet for the past 12 YEARS Primary WWW: http://www.postgresql.org/ Secondary WWW: http://logical.thought.net/postgres95/ http://www.itm.tu-clausthal.de/mirrors/postgres95/ http://s2k-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:8000/postgres95/ "Binaries only" distribution of PostgreSQL : You can run PostgreSQL without compiling the source. Get binaries for Intel-Linux from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/i386/ postgresql-6.1-6.i386.rpm Primary FTP: ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub Secondary ftp: ftp://ftp.chicks.net/pub/postgresql ftp://ftp.emsi.priv.at/pub/postgres/ ftp://ftp.itm.tu-clausthal.de/pub/mirrors/postgres95 ftp://rocker.sch.bme.hu/pub/mirrors/postgreSQL ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/dbms/postgres95 ftp://ftp.luga.or.at/pub/postgres95 ftp://postgres95.vnet.net:/pub/postgres95 A Variant of PostgreSQL is Commercialised: PostgreSQL (variant) is commercialised & sold by Illustra Inc (Illustra was bought over by Informix Inc.) http://www.illustra.com What Can it do for me? ----------------------- GUI FrontEnd Tool for PostgreSQL : PostgreSQL has TCL/TK library in distribution. TCL/TK is a Rapid Application Development tool, more powerful than Microsoft Visual Basic. Develop once and run it everywhere on NT, Win 95, Linux, all unixes!! To get TCL/TK - http://sunscript.sun.com/ http://sunscript.sun.com/TclTkCore/ ftp://ftp.sunlabs.com/pub/tcl/tcl8.0a2.tar.Z ODBC Drivers for PostgreSQL : http://www.ids.net/~bjepson/freeODBC/ http://www.openlinksw.com UDBC Drivers for PostgreSQL: UDBC is a static version of ODBC independent of driver managers and DLL support, used to embed database connectivity support directly into applications. http://www.openlinksw.com JDBC Drivers supported : Sun's Java connectivity to PostgreSQL http://www.demon.co.uk/finder/postgres/index.html ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/people/rst/rst-jdbc.tar.gz http://www.openlinksw.com Java RAD Tool for PostgreSQL: Java Rapid Application Tool for PostgreSQL http://www.man.ac.uk/~whaley/kj/kanch.html Java Classes for PostgreSQL : http://www.blackdown.org Perl 5 interface for PostgreSQL : It included in the distribution of PostgreSQL. Check in src/p