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Subject: Re: New Survey:  where did you get your PostgreSQL?
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 13:51:38 -0500
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Thread-Topic: New Survey:  where did you get your PostgreSQL?
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From: "Lance Obermeyer" <LObermey@pervasive.com>
To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>,
	"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: "David Fetter" <david@fetter.org>,
	"PostgreSQL WWW" <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>

I imagine the response will be zero, but an interesting one to add would =
be

6) Included with or embedded in another application, appliance, or =
device

It would really be interesting to know how many different embedded =
usages of Postgres there are and how many people know it is even there.

-----Original Message-----
From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:scrappy@postgresql.org]
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 11:05 AM
To: Joshua D. Drake
Cc: David Fetter; PostgreSQL WWW
Subject: Re: New Survey: where did you get your PostgreSQL?


On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> David Fetter wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 11:07:12PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>=20
>>> Survey:
>>>=20
>>> Where did you get your current production copy of PostgreSQL from?
>>>=20
>>> 1) FTP/Bittorrent from PostgreSQL.org
>>> 2) In a Linux distribution
>>> 3) In the Ports Collection
>>> 4) From some other Open Source web site
>>> 5) Some other way
>>>=20
>>=20
>> What about packages for Windows & Mac?  Also, why the bias towards
>> source installs and *n*x systems?
>>=20
> Well I think the reason for the bias is obvious... you aren't l33t
> unless you are doing source installs with a *n*x system. Well
> really that doesn't even qualify... it has to be a FreeBSD *n*x
> system. ;)

Actually, 3 doesn't necessarily =3D=3D source install either, since =
almost all
"ports" are available as pre-built binaries that you can download and=20
install ... its still all considered part of the "Ports Collection" =
though=20
...

Same as with Linux, where you can download either the .rpm or the .srpm, =
I=20
believe?


But, I agree with Robert's list, vs this one, since "Ports" should be=20
classified as "With Operating System Distribution" ... try and make it=20
more generic, since we don't mention Solaris packages in the above, etc=20
...

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