Re: Beginner's Questions

We produce and sell a Java desktop app, distributed in an office
(~1-10 Users), with Postgres as the central data store. The users are
"technically illiterate", and they often have very low spec hardware.
It does all work very well.

Note that for postgres you will need NTFS (WIN32 is not possible).

Our user interface is Java, built with Netbeans IDE, and is based on
the Netbeans "Platform" (to provide lots of lifty infrastructure). We
are Object Oriented developers, so we are nearly "SQL illiterate", so
we do all our Postgres interaction via Hibernate (Object Relational
Mapper"), and it works really well.

All our tools and deliverables are free open source or built on free
open source. This is necessary as we are an self-funded startup who
eventually hope to sell this system into a thousand sites, so paying
license fees for DB (Oracle anyone?) or other deliverables per site
really changes the economics of our offering.

I must say the software stack we have (including postgres) is awesome,
although it does take a lot of effort to learn. The system (Java and
Postgres server) is OK on a 500MHz PIII, but the issue is that it
really does need 500MB RAM to work properly.

All the best.
-Damian

On 3/10/07, Don Lavelle <don(dot)lavelle(dot)bulk(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> Thank you all for your help! From what I've gathered, similarly
> sized projects run on 100 MB of disk space and a 450 MHz processor.
> My GUI and application logic aren't going to need much more than
> that, so I should be good to go!
>
> PostgreSQL it is! I'm sure I will have many, many more questions as
> I continue the development process.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Don
>
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