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.
From: pgsql-advocacy-owner@postgresql.org on behalf of Simon Riggs
Sent: Sat 7/30/2005 2:38 PM
To: josh@agliodbs.com
Cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.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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