Re: Preferred connection technology for Linux/Win32 apps?

From: ianal Vista <ianal_vista_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:01:08 GMT
Message-ID: <Xns97FEC1793F72ianalvistahotmailcom@70.169.32.36>

Michael Ray <ihatespam_at_indy.net> wrote in news:0y9tg.20637$LS6.8746 @trnddc03:

> I've been thinking of switching over to learning Linux and developing
> apps using a language that will run on both platforms. Currently, I've
> only done VB6 apps using OO40. Since that is OLE-based, I'd guess that
> won't work on Linux very well. :) So am I stuck using ODBC or is there a
> better method? I suppose I could also just check the platform within the
> code and use OO4O if it's Win32. What is the equivalent on Linux?
>

http://www.eweek.com

The current issue has an interesting article which compares s/w stacks; OS, web server, databases & programming languages.

Some combinations perform much better than others. Those with JAVA rarely were near the head of the group. IIRC, Oracle was not actually included in the face off.

HTH & YMMV Received on Wed Jul 12 2006 - 21:01:08 CDT