Re: [HACKERS] Win32 Port WAS: Not 7.5, but 8.0 ?

Peter,

Well, based on the feedback we're getting from the 7.4 release, the #1 issue
for non-postgresql users who are interested enough to post to message boards
is "Where is the Windows Port?" This gets mentioned roughly 10 times as
often as any other potential feature.

So the Windows port is a mostly question of what matters to people who
*aren't* using PostgreSQL currently, assuming we want our community to grow
(and I think we do, since communities which don't grow die). For many if
not most of our current users it doesn't matter as much, becuase if it did
they wouldn't be using PostgreSQL.

But it affects current users too. I had to pass on two potential contracts
in 2003 because the use of Windows servers was stipulated. The second of
these I was really put out about since it was a scheduling application,
something that both I and PostgreSQL excel at were it not on Windows. You
probably aren't faced with this issue as much in Germany, but it happens
often to us folks in the US & Canada.

--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco