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.

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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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> 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.

It seems to me that one of the routes to "more installs" would be for
there to be similar support in cPanel for PostgreSQL as there is at
present for MySQL(tm).

There's some support; my present hosting provider has some PostgreSQL
icons here and there; alas, it's dysfunctional :-(. (Possibly a
pg_hba.conf problem; I haven't access, so I can't infer...)

OTOH, I can run initdb, so could build what I need :-).
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