Re: Urgent help needed for press contact

On Wednesday 05 November 2003 16:48, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 November 2003 16:12, Francois Suter wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I was contacted a while ago by a French computer magazine who's going
> > to run a special issue on open source databases. They are supposed to
> > run case studies and I directed them to several volunteer French
> > PostgreSQL users.
> >
> > Now they have just come back with a spreadsheet for comparing 4 OS DBs:
> > MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird and MAXDB/SAPDB. The deadline for filling
> > the table is tomorrow morning and there are some answers I don't (and
> > some stupid questions I would rather not answer, but that's beside the
> > point).
> >
> > So I would greatly appreciate any help to answer the following:
> >
> > -time to install (in hours) (talk about a stupid question!)
>
> 15 minutes from source compile on a good(read good CPU) Unix system.
> 2-3 minutes if you have source package..

Oops.. Precompiled package. This is for a Unix system. Not for a windows
system..

> Yes. GBorg replication page. Net connectivity is dead here, unfortunately.
> You have to hunt it yourself.
>
> http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pgreplication/projdisplay.php
> http://gborg.postgresql.org/genpage?replication_research

Obviously net worked in the meantime..:-)

Shridhar