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Cygwin in a Production Environment? 111

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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Cygwin in a Production Environment?

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  • by I_Love_Pocky! ( 751171 ) on Thursday August 12, 2004 @05:55PM (#9953242)
    That's not flamebait, that was a failed attempt at humor...

    Much better flamebait would be:
    Cygwin is known to crash regularly, but not any more regularly than any other application running under Windows. Anyone who would run Windows on a production server is asking for trouble. Clearly your best course of action is to forget this Cygwin idea, and spend your time and effort changing people's minds about this whole Windows garbage.
    See, I can do a real flamebait!

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