[KLUG Members] Postgresql

[Adam Williams6]

>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

Amen!  The here is a black box is the easiest thing to support.

>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.

You are under no obligated to Open Source code you write.  But with PHP it 
is pretty much open source by default unless you buy the Zend compiler.  
You can enforce copy-rights of course.

If you sell a product *including* open source projects like PostgreSQL you 
must make the source available for those components upon request.  This 
you could do by telling them http://www.postgresql.org

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