On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 18:56, Otto Haliburton wrote:
I was wondering if there is anyway of running MS Access and Red Hat 9 ?? This computer is set up as a Server so I'm running Apache with Perl, Python, ASP, ASP .NET, PHP, JSP. So basically some ASP and ASP .NET scripts need Access or SQL as Database.
If all you need is "...Access or SQL..." will *any* SQL database work? Or do you *need* Microsoft applications?
If any SQL will help, Red Hat Linux and Fedora have included MySQL and PostgreSQL for ages. Both are free and work well. Oracle also runs on Linux as does IBM's DB2. Basically everything made by everyone except Microsoft runs on Linux.
Perhaps this is a good time to invest in a database migration?
Cheers,
I'd like to add as it seems many don't know this. If you plan on using MySQL in a commercial environment you need to purchase a commercial license. For a server environment this is pretty cheap. The last time I had someone purchase one it was like $400-500 US. If anyone ever needs a database for their distributed applications I would advise them to not build on mysql because for every distrobution of the database server one has to purchase a commercial license to be legal.
We checked into this with the MySQL US people and the closest we could get was $50 US per copy of the database on the CD. We ship many CDs. We purchased Sybase SQL Anywhere for our standalone engine. It has a server side and a redistributable engine. I think in the future we may be looking to use Firebird as it is very nice. I would also like to add that the Sybase SQL Anywhere server is very compatible (not completely) with Microsoft SQL Server except for server specific tasks like backing up a database and what not.
Just a little extra info.
Wade
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