[AmericanChopper]

As somebody who does a fair amount of DBA work, Oracle is my favorite RDBMS to operate. Low level administration is easy to manage, the optimizer is very performant, and the plan management features make tuning easy, and statistics management much less risky (and it can be very risky).

I wouldn't use it on any of my own projects though, but only because I wouldn't want to pay for it, and because I have enough faith in myself to be able to manage the trickier bits of Postgres.

[ashtonkem]

To be fair, I have no idea how hard it was to manage Oracle vs. how much my DBA just liked to gripe. But I largely agree with you, except I would lean towards a managed service because I’m no DBA.