>They could but it might be an issue of support. Suppose some company says "Our business is in Database X, we need support from a Fortune 500 company". >I'm pretty sure PG doesn't meet that. What is the largest/best established paid support option for PG?

There are several - but none are a fortune 500 company. EnterpriseEB (http://www.enterprisedb.com/) is the biggest I know of - but there are lots of little guys.


I haven't had a need for support because my databases do not really tax the PostgreSQL engine - except for amount of data. Even the data issue came down to the network speed and not the database engine. The only way to improve the performance was either request less data or a 10g network.

Johnf