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Add to SafariWhen comparing Toad vs XAMPP, the Slant community recommends XAMPP for most people. In the question“What are the best MySQL client applications for Windows?” XAMPP is ranked 6th while Toad is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose XAMPP is:
Port 443 is in use from Skype. You can change the port in Skype.
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Pros
Pro Reliable
Toad is maintained by Dell and has great community support.
Pro Free
Toad is free to use.
Pro Smooth installation with minimal configuration required
Port 443 is in use from Skype. You can change the port in Skype.
Pro Multi-platform
XAMPP runs on OS X, Linux and Windows.
Pro Clean and functional interface
Cons
Con Fewer features
Still some more features are required to add. Other than that its perfectly fine.
Con No built-in SSH tunneling
Toad currently doesn't provide built-in SSH tunneling.
Con Bloated
Comes with mail server, FTP server, accelerator, web-dav, ssl out of the box, etc.
Con doesnt has phpselector
Need downgrade to use php5
