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Date:      Sat, 17 Jan 1998 21:40:27 +0000
From:      Damian Hamill <damian@cablenet.net>
To:        "Andras Tudos - Computronic, C3" <andras.tudos@computronic.hu>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Distributed Webservers
Message-ID:  <34C1254B.41C67EA6@cablenet.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980115173926.5384F-100000@millennium.net> <34BFD329.B17136C2@launchpad.win.net> <3.0.5.32.19980117141817.01333600@computronic.hu>

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Andras Tudos - Computronic, C3 wrote:
> 
> And how would one connect to an existing M$ SQL server from FreeBSD? Any
> cool ideas?

Use Mysql instead of M$ SQL as I suggested below.

> 
> Andras Tudos
> C3, Budapest
> 
> At 12:50 98.01.17 +0000, Damian Hamill wrote:
> >Joe Mays wrote:
> >>
> >> Lists wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I don't understand why a customer would need NT unless they needed
> >> > Frontpage extensions, which 1. are crap and 2. are available on
> >> > UN*X anyway!
> >> >
> >> > Any other reasons?
> >>
> >> ASP.  Access database integration.
> >
> >Available in apache as PHP for no charge with source code.  You can
> >define functions and extend as you wish.
> >
> >> MSSQL integration.
> >
> >Apache->PHp->Mysql  all free.
> >
> >AND
> >
> >Delhpi->ODBC->Mysql is even sexier.
> >
> >>I
> >> personally have no desire for NT, but these are the reasons
> >> are customers want to be able to run things off of NT, often
> >> in conjunction with a site under BSD, and I have no desire
> >> to tell them to get lost just because I don't care for NT
> >> myself.
> >
> >I had a customer that wanted to go NT until I showed then the above
> >solutions.  They now have a site based on these with a Delphi admin app.
> >
> >vey cool!!
> >
> >regards
> >damian
> >
> >--
> >*    Damian Hamill   M.D.       damian@cablenet.net
> >* CableNet & The Landscape Channel
> >* http://www.cablenet.net/   http://www.landscapetv.com/
> >

-- 
*    Damian Hamill   M.D.       damian@cablenet.net
* CableNet & The Landscape Channel
* http://www.cablenet.net/   http://www.landscapetv.com/



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