> What was the point here? > Oracle runs on Red Hat, runs on Windows. > PostgreSQL runs on UNIX/Linux/Windows. The point is that RDBMS's that are enterprise level are not open source. I never see anyone complaining that they had to pay for Redhat, Solaris, Mac OS X, AIX, HP Unix. I never see anyone complaining that Oracle, IBM DB2, Informix, Delphi, or Sybase are not open source. There are many proprietary systems that are not open source.