Re: It's probably stupid.... but......

From: Wade Chandler (wchandler_at_redesetgrow.com)
Date: 09/23/04

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    Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:58:41 -0400
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    Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
    > 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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