Re: [mail] Re: Windows Build System

> Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> > Assuming all your assumptions are right, why the hell is Oracle's and MS
> > SQL-Server's reputation that bloody good?
>
> They have marketing departments.

... As well as sizable systems integration departments devoted to the
platforms in question. PostgreSQL doesn't have the latter, although the
recent efforts make a move towards it.

> > And what about MySQL?
>
> What about it? Someone claimed in this thread that MySQL's Windows port
> requires Cygwin. Is that true or not?

http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql-3.23.html
"Windows downloads

The Windows binaries use the Cygwin library. Source code for the version of
Cygwin we have used is available on this page."
http://www.mysql.com/downloads/cygwin.html
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