Re: NuSphere and PostgreSQL for windows

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Robert Treat wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 12:31, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > > Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> writes:
> > > > I got message from nusphere.com about windows port of PostgreSQL.
> > > > They're looking for full time developer in Russia,Moscow.
> > >
> > > > Is this is a joke ?
> > >
> > > No, I expect they're serious.  NuSphere does still own the PeerDirect
> > > windows port that Jan worked on at his former job.  They need someone
> > > to maintain that and bring it forward to newer versions of PG.  It's
> > > not going to be a long-term product (assuming that we ever finish the
> > > community's native port), so they need to keep the costs down.  I'm
> > > not surprised that they'd be looking to send the development overseas
> > > instead of keeping it at their US offices.
> >
> > Hmm, I suspect they have some developers here in Russia. At least full text
> > search resembles me MnogoSearch. Anyway, I'm not willing to work with them.
> > Postgres forever
> >
>
> Don't be too hasty. I don't know about anyone else, but I'd welcome an
> updated commercial native windows solution (When's SRA's port coming out
> in 1.0?) , especially if they'd be willing to provide a "diff" of the
> code back to the community. We might as well have someone get paid for
> work we will probably have to do anyways...

I think a few things that Oleg needs to find out first is whether or not
PeerDirect *will* feed it back to the community ... how much did they feed
back of Jan's work?  Considering where win32 seems to be sitting, it
doesn't seem like much ...