[KLUG Members] Postgresql

[Tony Gettig]

Do you really want to support multiple platforms? If it were me, I would
tell Mr. Customer that the solution is developed, tested, and supported
under Linux. In fact, you could tell Mr. Customer you'd be happy to sell
him a server for this very purpose. Furthermore, add a modem or some
other means of remote access directly to the server and you can remote
admin and troubelshoot for him...at an additional charge, of course. :)

If you state the system requirements clearly and stand by them, it
shouldn't be an issue. Otherwise, you may want to consider a different
DB server. 

I'm not sure, but you might need to consider any open source
ramifications of your product in relation to the GPL. That whole thing
is kind of fuzzy to me. That is, maybe you have to make available the
source for the open source components you used, but maybe not the code
you wrote. Then again, maybe you want to open source your product. I
truly am not sure, but it may be worth checking into.

Tony


On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 10:01, Adam Bultman wrote:
> Greetings once again..  Question.
> 
> My company has an app that runs using PHP and postgresql.  We are thinking
> of marketing it and selling it to customers. They would buy the prog, set
> up their own server, and install and run the app.
> 
> My question:
> 
> Obviously, PHP and Postgres run excellent on linux.  However, the issue
> with me is:  What happens when I get the phone call that the prog has been
> sold to a windows freak?   I'm not sure it will make companies happy to
> know that they've got to run Cygwin on top of windows, and have postgres
> running inside that.  Is there a better way?  I've searched the net quite
> a bit now, and I'm not happy.  There's a bit of documentation for postgres
> on NT, but it didn't seem to be the entire postgres server side.
> 
> My question: Have you run postgres on windows inside cygwin before?  My
> boss has high hopes of selling this; but the windows/postgres issue has me
> worried.
> 
> adam
> 
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