From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Aug 6 14:55:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from laf.cioe.com (laf.cioe.com [204.120.165.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F227A14D62 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 14:55:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mlinvill@cioe.com) Received: from localhost (mlinvill@localhost) by laf.cioe.com (8.9.2/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA50280; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 16:54:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mlinvill@cioe.com) X-Authentication-Warning: laf.cioe.com: mlinvill owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 16:54:52 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Linvill To: "Eric A. Griff" Cc: Chris Cook , Martin , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2 queries In-Reply-To: <00b801bee050$6864e200$c100000a@cfpower.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greetings, On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Eric A. Griff wrote: >Hi Mark, > > Sorry to slightly advocate an M$ product, though IMHO, Access is quite >useful for small to medium size applications.. > Don't get me wrong here I do believe there is a place for Access. But I don't believe that a small ISP should start billing on it. I've personally written a couple of Access databases/interfaces. It was an interesting experience. > 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. > Egad! > 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 =) > Cool. You might look into php [ http://www.php.net ]. I believe it to be CF's open source competitor. No pretty GUI for design but it has functionality to do anything I wanted to do with database interfaces in html. BTW, I fully admit to my UNIX bigotry. FreeBSD is my platform of choice. -Mark >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) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message