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Cygwin in a Production Environment?

Posted by Cliff on from the is-it-ready-for-prime-time dept.

not-so-anonymous Anonymous Coward asks: "I'm working for a company that does all of its programming and script development in a Unix environment (90% of our work is either Bash or Perl scripts that communicate with an Oracle database). We've recently gotten a new customer and for reasons beyond our control, the server must be a Windows box. Since we want to reuse our existing scripts that we've spent a considerable amount of time developing, we're looking into Cygwin as an option. Has anyone run Cygwin in a production server environment for any extended period of time? If so, what were your experiences with it?"

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  1. Just Rembember by I_Love_Pocky! · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No matter how well Cygwin works out, you still have to run Windows under it. Doesn't sound very "production server environment" ready to me.