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by zapman449 5285 days ago
Well, Oracle is more prevalent in big enterprise. But if you look at the equations at the end of the article, a mysql/postgres DBA costs probably 80-90% of the Oracle DBA. The licensing costs are less, but the hardware cost for the big-iron and big-SAN to run the RDBMS is pretty much the same.