[KLUG Members] Re: Postgresql -- sell a hardware solution ...

[Tony Gettig]

In fact, if you had the beef and were able to modify your app, maybe you could enter the Application Service Provider (ASP) market and let them run the app for YOUR server through a secure connection over the Internet....

Tony


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>>> "Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith@ieee.org> 02/27/02 10:58AM >>>
On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 10:01, Adam Bultman wrote:
> 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?

Sell a "complete hardware solution" in "black box" form.  You'll
increase your profit margin and reduce support calls at the same time
since _you_ control the components, both hardware and OS/support.  ;-P

It will also be easier to handle updates.  You'll just send them a CD. 
You don't have to worry about your customers fetching their own
PostgreSQL and PHP.

I have advocated this _exact_ model to the "vertical application market"
at large.  Don't follow a stupid Windows "I've gotta support other
software than my own" model (e.g., MSSQL, Access, etc...).  _You_
control the platform with Linux.

In fact, I'd _market_ the solution as such:

  "Sick of messing with Windows internals to support an app?
   Sick of mixing incompatible software on your server?
   Don't want to buy another server for software?
   
   Why not buy a server dedicated to the application with
   the application for _less_ than the cost of their
   application?

   No more software conflicts!
   Easy installation and, more importantly, upgrades!
   Far more reliable!
   100% standards-based protocols!"

> 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.

Several people on the SQL-Ledger list have, and usually with poor
results (let alone the security issues).

You could _try_ to adapt your PHP application to MS SQL c/o
ActiveState's products.  But then you're going to increase your costs,
both in support software and further/dual-homed development.

-- Bryan

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