We use Redis quite a bit in one of our products, Kiln. Because Kiln is mainly a Mercurial hosting platform, we offer it as a hosted product on our servers or, f

We use Redis quite a bit in one of our products, Kiln. Because Kiln is mainly a Mercurial hosting platform, we offer it as a hosted product on our servers or, for companies who would prefer to have tighter control of where their source code goes, as an installed product on our customer's servers. As Kiln is written in .Net, we require that users installing it use Windows. Asking our customers to also set up a separate %nix box (or VM), just to run Redis, is too much. In the first versions of Kiln, we had to ship a Python clone of Redis we called MiniRedis (it only implemented the subset of commands we used) because of the lack of Windows support. We're now shipping the Cygwin build of Redis to run on Windows, which is less than ideal. I sincerely hope you'll reconsider your position. I believe it is, at best, myopic to think that %nix is the only place people will want to host Redis, or that it has in any way "won" as the only hosting platform.