> Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- (reverse (concatenate 'string "gro.gultn@" "enworbbc")) http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/spiritual.html "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), English author. Sherlock Holmes, in The Sign of Four, ch. 6 (1889). [...but see the Holmesian Fallacy, due to Bob Frankston... <http://www.frankston.com/public/Essays/Holmesian%20Fallacy.asp>] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
