Re: [mail] Re: Native Win32 sources

Al Sutton wrote:
> Lee,
>
> I wouldn't go for 7.4 in production until after it's gone gold, but being
> able to cut the number of boxes per developer by giving them a Win32 native
> version would save on everything from the overhead of getting the developers
> familiar enough with Linux to be able to admin their own systems, to cutting
> the network usage by having the DB and app on the same system, through to
> cutting the cost of electricity by only having one box per developer. It
> would also be a good way of testing 7.4 against our app so we can plan for
> an upgrade when it's released ;).
>
> I've tried open office 1.0.1 and had to ditch it. It had problems with font
> rendering and tables that ment many of the forms that people sent as word
> documents had chunks that weren't displayed or printed. We did try it on a
> box with MS-Word on it to ensure that the setup of the machine wasn't the
> issue, Word had no problems, OO failed horribly.

www.peerdirect.com has a native PostgreSQL 7.2 release that should work
fine for you until 7.4. It is in beta, I think.

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