Re: How much work is a native Windows application?

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 01:16:01PM -0400, mlw wrote:
> I mentioned in another thread, Windows does not support "fork()." PostgreSQL
> seems irrevocably tied to using fork(). Without a drastic rewrite of how
> postmaster works, I don't see a way to make a pure Windows version.

I watch this discussion and only one question is still in my head:
how much people use Windows for server side part of stable application
based Oracle or DB2? Why my employer spend a lot of money with
SGI cluster + IRIX?

_IMHO_ if you want support Windows, please, write good tools for admins,
DB designers and developers (forms?). The server is really not a problem if
you think about real DB application. There is more important things in our
TODO than support GUI-OS for server running... (IMHO:-)

Karel

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