| From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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| To: | Francois Suter <dba(at)paragraf(dot)ch>, PostgreSQL advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: dbExperts or PowerGres |
| Date: | 2004-06-29 16:22:02 |
| Message-ID: | 200406290922.02150.josh@agliodbs.com |
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Francois,
> Now this person was wondering which was better between PowerGres and
> dbExperts. Personally I have no clue. I am just a bit nervous about
> dbExperts, because they pretend that " In fact, dbExperts has developed
> the first and only commercial version of PostgreSQL for Windows
> (95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP).", which seems wrong, because there's PowerGres
> too.
As far as I know, the dbExperts "postgresql for windows" is just the Cygwin
version, which is available for free download, with a nifty graphical
installer. You can buy the same thing from CommandPrompt.com, if you want.
The problem with Cygwin-based PostgreSQL is that it's not very scalable, due
to operating in emulation. I know CommandPrompt caps off its version of
PG+Cygwin at something like 25 users -- I would recommend the same.
On the other hand, while PowerGres has been in development for some time and
shares code with our win32 version, I haven't yet seen it in operation, nor
seen any test results. So you'd need to do some testing on this one.
--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
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