X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9D3D9DCC60 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 05:15:10 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 36312-02 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 05:15:11 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from mx-2.sollentuna.net (mx-2.sollentuna.net [195.84.163.199]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8460E9DC88B for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 05:15:08 -0400 (AST) Received: from ALGOL.sollentuna.se (janus.sollentuna.se [62.65.68.67]) by mx-2.sollentuna.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E730C8F282; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 10:15:08 +0100 (CET) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Subject: Re: new survey idea Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 10:11:44 +0100 Message-ID: <6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCEA350B0@algol.sollentuna.se> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [pgsql-www] new survey idea Thread-Index: AcY825eo+77IXgvfT3W+YKE9jo2ViAALI7IQAABbllAAAGhSsAAAMz9QAABwJcAAAHZ0wA== From: "Magnus Hagander" To: "Dave Page" , "Josh Berkus" , Cc: "Robert Treat" X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.099 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.099] X-Spam-Score: 0.099 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200603/7 X-Sequence-Number: 9597 > > But seriously. Crystal comes in two flavours, I think? One client=20 > > based (that sucks beyond recognition, and can be compared=20 > to access)=20 > > and one server based (that I don't know the suckage factor of, but=20 > > that I guess you're referring to). >=20 > Yeah, there is a now a server based version but I've never=20 > used it. The client version is slightly strange I grant you,=20 > but is actually very powerful when you get the hang of it. Oh, I hope it's good from a developer perspective, since so many ppl use it. It's a complete nightmare from a sysadmin perspective (in a larger environment), though. Especialliy when you have to deal with a lot of incompatible different versions (heard of DLL hell? This is a lot worse..) //Magnus