Re: [mail] Re: Windows Build System

Your Name <cbbrowne@cbbrowne.com>

From: cbbrowne@cbbrowne.com
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>, Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>, Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>, Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>, Ron Mayer <ron@intervideo.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, cbbrowne@cbbrowne.com
Date: 2003-01-31T13:12:14Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> writes:
> > Assuming all your assumptions are right, why the hell is Oracle's and MS
> > SQL-Server's reputation that bloody good?
> 
> They have marketing departments.

... As well as sizable systems integration departments devoted to the 
platforms in question.  PostgreSQL doesn't have the latter, although the 
recent efforts make a move towards it.

> > And what about MySQL?
> 
> What about it?  Someone claimed in this thread that MySQL's Windows port
> requires Cygwin.  Is that true or not?

http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql-3.23.html
"Windows downloads

The Windows binaries use the Cygwin library. Source code for the version of 
Cygwin we have used is available on this page."
http://www.mysql.com/downloads/cygwin.html
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