Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Well even more then that. The market that Tony is going after he
> *thinks* runs Windows, it doesn't.
>
> The majority of people out there that run PostgreSQL are running *nix.
> Yes, the majority of downloads we have received over the past two
> years is Windows. However that number is completely false because all
> major *nix (Including Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, MacOSX and Linux)
> ship with PostgreSQL.
>
> I would actually, probably purchase pgLightning if it ran on Linux but
> sense it doesn't.... he is out of luck and frankly, so am I because it
> is a good product.
>
>
That's not exactly true :-)
The market I am going after are those that run windows on the desktop
and access Postgresql running on any server platform.
I would still argue that the vast majority of people access their
Postgresql servers from a Windows Desktop, not a Unix one.
Sure the majority of the people that use this list may run a Linux
Desktop, but not everyone that uses Postgresql uses this mailing list.
I would agree that most production Postgresql servers are running on
some form of Unix, just because the server is on Unix or whatever has no
bearing on what
desktop they are accessing it from.
It would be interesting to see what the numbers really are, maybe
someone should put up a survey and put a link to it from the main
Postgresql site.
Later,
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Tony Caduto
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