From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 21 10:51:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA24118 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 May 1997 10:51:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA24113 for ; Wed, 21 May 1997 10:51:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id LAA04429; Wed, 21 May 1997 11:50:14 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199705211750.LAA04429@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: Database server on FreeBSD To: stephane@e2c.com (Stephane Legrand) Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 11:50:11 -0600 (MDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Stephane Legrand" at May 21, 97 06:22:07 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I have to do a proposal for a database project. Of course, i would want to > make this with FreeBSD (eventually Linux). > The aim of this project is to connect (may be via Internet) 40 distant > sites to a central database server. All clients posts are PC with Windows. > My questions are : > > - Which database server would you recommend ? I think about > Postgres but may be there are others. Postgres would certainly work. I've heard good things about msql, but haven't had an opportunity to try it yet. > - With this server, which type of clients would you recommend (www > browser, ODBC client developped with Delphi or Visual Basic...) ? A web browser would make your UI able to run on *any* system. If you need help with an http server that can query a database, email me directly. I do this for a living ;^) and can probably slide you some code that will help greatly. > I think the major problem is to find a good server which can be used via > Windows clients. I keep hoping somebody will develop a JDBC layer for Postgres on FreeBSD. > The price is important because it's for an association which is involved in > helping homeless. This is why i would want to use FreeBSD (among many other > reasons). And it would be well if at least the server was free. And perhaps the clients as well -- you could just modify the rc.local to start X and netscape, and point the netscape "home" at your server, making the client machine a dedicated application. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com