PostgreSQL is a very solid database. It performs decently, has good transaction handling, a nice programming language, and it's free. Hard to argue with that.
Heh, I don’t doubt all that...Oracle is supposed to be very, very fast and good, but I understand they get their pound of flesh as well, plus your internal organ, plus all your worldly possessions.
I work in an enterprise, and they are traditionally loathe to deviate from the monolith since they apparently keep in mind “Nobody ever got fired for choosing Microsoft”!