PostgreSQL vs. MS SQL Server

> they even invented a whole ecosystem, .NET, designed to draw a hard line between Microsoft users and non-Microsoft users

I guess this wasn't written last week; the author gets to update that part with the recent developments with regards to the .NET foundation[1].

[1] http://www.dotnetfoundation.org/projects

> 1.3. You can run PostgreSQL in Linux, BSD etc. (and, of course, Windows)

Of course don't expect locale to work correctly.