From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Aug 6 14:15:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from genesis.setjmp.net (worldrecovery.org [208.13.245.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6822A14D09 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 14:15:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eric@cfpower.com) Received: from Apophis ([10.0.0.193]) by genesis.setjmp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA30026; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 17:14:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from eric@cfpower.com) Message-ID: <00b801bee050$6864e200$c100000a@cfpower.com> Reply-To: "Eric A. Griff" From: "Eric A. Griff" To: "Mark Linvill" , "Chris Cook" Cc: "Martin" , References: Subject: Re: 2 queries Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 17:12:35 -0400 Organization: CFPower MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Mark, Sorry to slightly advocate an M$ product, though IMHO, Access is quite useful for small to medium size applications.. Though I have seen a NT Workstation (180Mhz PPro, 128M ram, Western Digital Cavier IDE drive (just one 4G)), O'Reilly Website Pro 2.x, and Allaire ColdFusion Application Server 4.0 Enterprise, serving 100 sites (pretty heavy load), running solely Access databases.. It runs good, and gives less problems than the Dell PowerEdge 2300 that was intended to replace it. At the same time, in an environment, where about 6 sites are completed a week at times, access contributed to that fast development (in combination with ColdFusin). I don't think ASP would come close to those results w/IIS.. The sites databases will soon be transported to MySQL, since we've managed to get ColdFusion to use the MySQL ODBC driver.. A little more progress on there end, and hopefully ODBC can be pulled out of the loop (after all these years, still bugs remaining). Anyways, the #1 reason access was used, "Someone bought office". #2, it had an interface that made it easy to use. Similiar tools could be made to give the same kind of interface to the Free Source Unix Databases.. Anyways, I'm just delighted that now CF is stably connecting to MySQL(MyODBC), so in a short time, access will be gone, except as a development tool =) Eric A. Griff , http://www.setjmp.com setjmp Software Your source for custom 181 Genesee Street Software Solutions. Suite 504 Utica, NY 13501 ICQ# 28146852 Office: (315) 734-1668 Extension 205 Home: (315) 495-2385 (seldom) ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Linvill To: Chris Cook Cc: Martin ; Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 12:21 PM Subject: Re: 2 queries > On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Chris Cook wrote: > > >Martin wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > >> 3) (but you only said there was two ; ) Best/cheapest billing software ? > > > >We rigged something up in access... easy to do and very customizable. > > > > No way in hell I would trust my mission critical billing to a toy like > MS Access. IMHO Access is a prototyping tool if anything. > > Spend a little money up front for a turn-key billing package. In a > year or two if you have any growth, you'll really appreciate it. > > I could dig up links to a couple of commercial solutions if you're > interested... > > -Mark > > > > > >-- > >Chris Cook > >The Computer Works > >http://www.tcworks.net > >http://www.tcworks.com > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message