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PostgreSQL Gets New Website, 8.0 Release Candidate

Posted by timothy on from the elepantses dept.

gavinroy writes "As can be seen at PostgreSQL, the PostgreSQL www team has released the new version of the site sporting a new clean and more professional look. This is hot on the heels of PostgreSQL 8.0 RC2 which includes numerous bug fixes and is one step closer to production ready PostgreSQL on the Win32 platform." Neil Bahroos points out this ZDNet article on the upcoming 8.0 release.

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  1. Re:Looks a lot like RedHat's site by pr0c · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Redhat is one of their sponsers, maybe one of their contributions is the design? _THIS IS JUST A GUESS_

  2. The web site by Masa · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Aah... those fond memories. I remember, when I first time tried the PostgreSQL... I went to their web site and was scared away, because I thought it was some commercial closed source product that cannot even be evaluated without signing up for a demo version or something other horrible soul-eating stuff... The web site was so professional-looking even years ago that at the first time I was totally fooled about it.

    It's surprising, how huge effect a visual layout can have. At that time, I was only used to see ugly, unprofessional-looking open source project homepages. But PostgreSQL has always been an exception. In my opinion they have always had a very good-looking web site.

    It's surprising, how much visual appearance can affect our (or at least my) judgment. I hope that this is something that all OSS projects keep in mind when designing web sites and user interfaces.

  3. Re:Looks a lot like RedHat's site by JustinXB · · Score: 4, Interesting

    All websites look the same these days. http://www.apple.com/ and http://linspire.com/ for example.

  4. Re:How about... by BollocksToThis · · Score: 4, Informative

    A list of new features as compared to 7.x? I can't find one on the PostgreSQL website.

    Here you go. To find a link to it, I had to go to the original announcement of the beta...

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  5. Hell, let me feed the trolls... by thecampbeln · · Score: 4, Informative
    ...I've been running a WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl) for a while now. Nothing professional per-say, but definitely my ideas nursery. I have thus far been too scared/lazy/busy/etc to change out the W for the L, but I have activity chosen Linux apps on the box in preparation for the move to Linux. Getting the servers properly configured is the hardest part. Now that I at least have the AMP properly configured, my eventual Linux migration will be that much easier.

    This is why a native Win32 build is important. I looked at PostgreSQL a while ago, and even got the non-official Win32 build to run on the box. Ironically, the more Linux/Open Source applications I get running on that Windows box, the closer I am to making the jump to Linux for good. And since I refuse to upgrade past Windows 2000, that day is rapidly approaching. The only things holding me back now are my DNS and Mail servers (I've currently got Windows only servers). If I could have found a Win32 build of a Linux Mail and DNS server, I'd literally have nothing keeping me off Linux right now.

    The most important thing for me was to get the servers up and running. I know Windows, I didn't know Linux. So instead of adding another thing to learn, I took the path or least resistance and installed Linux/Open Source servers under Windows. And I don't think I'm alone. Just look at this recent story... I think TheRaven64 got it right.

    BTW: Anyone have a Win32 build of Linux Mail/DNS servers for me to kick around? Anyone?

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