[KLUG Members] Postgresql

[Adam Bultman]

Yeah, the idea was the make a CD with our app (zend encoded, of course)
along with apache, php, and postgres to get them on their way.  We might
even suggest a distro to go along with it.

With the idea of a server solution:  The main issue with that is that now
we have to create a support contract for the machine-- and we don't know
where that would go, how it would be treated, etc, and we have more
liabilities on our hands. It would be far easier to merely sell the
software, and offer initial set-up support to go with it, if needed.

And speaking of windows and databases, I recently set up a temporary one
(I can't remember if I posted to this list ) that was IIS/ASP/Access.
Wow, what a pain to set up.  We are temporarily hosting their page while
we redo their site, etc.

Ick.

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Adam Bultman
adam@glaven.org
[ http://www.glaven.org ]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Adam Williams6 wrote:

> >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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