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by andrenotgiant 799 days ago
For all the reasons shared here already, plus a compounding effect on top:

For every percentage point of marketshare that Postgres takes, the risk in choosing Postgres decreases, and the risk of choosing an alternative increases.

Risk is:

- Will it continue to develop, get bugs fixed, security holes patched?

- Will it work with all future tech my company adopts?

- Will it remain Open Source? - etc...