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Re: MySQL drops support for most distributions

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On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 15:01 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Scott Marlowe wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 10:50, David Goodenough wrote:
> > > http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/13/1515217&from=rss
> > > 
> > > "MySQL quietly deprecated support for most Linux distributions on October 16, 
> > > when its 'MySQL Network' support plan was replaced by 'MySQL Enterprise.' 
> > > MySQL now supports only two Linux distributions — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
> > > and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. We learned of this when MySQL declined to 
> > > sell us support for some new Debian-based servers. Our sales rep 'found out 
> > > from engineering that the current Enterprise offering is no longer supported 
> > > on Debian OS.' We were told that 'Generic Linux' in MySQL's list of supported 
> > > platforms means 'generic versions of the implementations listed above'; not 
> > > support for Linux in general."
> > 
> > So, in a similar vein, which PostgreSQL support companies support
> > Debian, for instance?
> 
> I bet Credativ does.

Command Prompt supports PostgreSQL on the following platforms:

Full Support:

Debian/Ubuntu, RH/FC, SuSE 
FreeBSD (Stable releases only)
Win32
Solaris 

PostgreSQL only support (meaning how to configure the OS is up to you):

Any Linux not listed above, e.g; Slackware, Mandriva etc...


Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake



> 
> The good thing is that there are several companies supporting Postgres,
> so whatever one of them does it does not affect the market as a whole.
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