Native Win32 port - PLEASE!
От | ajmayo@my-deja.com (Andrew Mayo) |
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Тема | Native Win32 port - PLEASE! |
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PLEASE .... can we have the native Win32 port SOON. It will totally and utterly hurt Microsoft in a very important area to have this port. Why? Well, many of you will know that MS give away a cut-down version of SQL Server (MSDE) and this is bundled with a *lot* of Win32 apps. Now, MSDE is pretty good, though it is a nightmare to upgrade, for various reasons - but there are fishhooks in the license agreement that worry a lot of people - particularly, a clause about replication that could be interpreted in ways that would suddenly require users to pay MS large wads of cash. And MSDE is deliberately crippled; five concurrent users, max 2G database size. Many vendors (including the one I work for) would be very very very interested in looking at PostgreSQL as an alternative BUT it NEEDS to run natively on Windows (not via Cygwin) If it did, I can see real inroads being made into 'mindspace' here and a huge increase in PostgreSQL usage - it would become ubiquitous as a 21st century database - and porting to Win32 therefore helps, not hinders, the open source movement. So can I quietly beg the Win32 group to expedite this port. I believe you will be utterly astonished at the demand. Please.....
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