Re: 775,000 downloads plus

If PostgreSQL had a native Windoze Installer for the last five years, we'd be the "Most Advanced" AND the "Most Popular" open source database. I think that more than two thirds of the production instances of PostgreSQL will still be *nix and that two thirds (or more) of the downloads will be Microsoftie. I think lots of folks prefer a click-click-finish install if they just want to try something out quickly.

--Luss
www.enterprisedb.com

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From: pgsql-advocacy-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org on behalf of Simon Riggs
Sent: Sat 7/30/2005 2:38 PM
To: josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] 775,000 downloads plus

On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 11:39 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Predictably, 2/3 of those downloads overall were Windows.

I think we might infer that people prefer a version that comes with an
Installer. The Windows version is more like a distro than the RPM
versions, since you still need to do so much yourself for those.

I also note that there are 3 PostgreSQL distros with installers...

So there must be something in it.

Best Regards, Simon Riggs

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