Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:20:25 -0400
From: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: EnterpriseDB Postgres
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To: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Cc: Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>,
 "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>,
	Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>,
	Lukas Kahwe Smith <smith@pooteeweet.org>
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On Wednesday 08 August 2007 12:11, Dave Page wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > Dave Page wrote:
> >> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >>> Am Mittwoch, 8. August 2007 17:14 schrieb Lukas Kahwe Smith:
> >>> Certainly not the first,
> >>
> >> Barring pgInstaller, it's the first bundled distribution I recall seeing
> >> available at no cost.
> >
> > Mammoth PostgreSQL was doing this quite some time ago. We found that it
> > was better to insure support of the surrounding projects so that all the
> > Pg packages could make it upstream.
>
> You were including server, admin tools and drivers in a point 'n' click
> distro-independent installer? I thought Mammoth was a rebranded server
> (now community standard).
>

FWIW, BitRock has been doing a verson of this for a little while (single 
download, graphical install, admin tool, works across linux distros)

http://bitrock.com/download_webstacks_download.html

-- 
Robert Treat
Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL