On: Microsoft Reports Record Revenue of $24.52 Billion in Second Quarter

[MichaelGG]

Right, now that Postgres 9.3 just added materialized views, perhaps they'll have a super-easy system for replication, DR, and HA.

[code_duck → MichaelGG]

Microsoft offers product to compete at many different levels of the market. Postgres is their competition for some needs, but I would think that if you need more advanced features like you mention it would be more of a comparison to Oracle and db2.