Re: Which DB/Software suite combo is best for Web<->DB implementation
Date: 1999/04/08
Message-ID: <4smr80vb.fsf_at_metamedia.no>#1/1
"Saber Data Systems" <sjdavis_at_nospam.saberdata.com> writes:
> MS Access 97 and Cold Fusion Administrator 4.0. Works like a dream...
And the performance in a multiuser environment?
> larry_at_lobster.com wrote in message <7eie1o$3t6_at_edrn.newsguy.com>...
> >FileMAker PRO and Tango(?) for fast, easy implementation. shopping etc..
Filemaker and Tango are both proprietary solutions, much like Access and Cold Fusion. The implementation may be fast, performance is _not_.
> >In article <370ab48b.11143929_at_news.pacbell.net>, nthelen_at_pbjcorp.com
says...
> >>
> >>I am new to the Web<->DB world. My past was primarily invloved in
> >>Windows Client/Server apps using C++ and MFC. Now my job entails
> >>using the web as the primary front end to our apps. I know/hope there
> >>is going to be lots of feedback with this question so here it goes:
> >>
> >>Which DB/Software suite combo is the best for Web<->DB implementation?
Apache with PHP or Modperl against Oracle, Sybase, MySQL or Solid.
If you're from the Microsoft-camp IIS against SQL-server 7.0 is the obvious
choice.
I find Tango and Cold Fusion both strange and wrong (TM), but then again I use Perl
on IIS (with ASP) instead of VB. (Don't like Visual Interdev much either)
> >>What I exactly mean by this is that there are lots of technologies out
> >>there and I want to hear some feed back as to what has worked well for
> >>you, but also just as important, what has NOT worked well for you.
NT/IIS has not worked well for me, Microsoft products in general actually... I've built two intranetts with IIS, one mainly databasebased (Sybase).
> >>The projects are going to range from small to large so I am open to
> >>anything.
This is 90% philosophy and 10% science. Or 90/90 if you have the "right" philosophy... It's open vs. proprietary, good vs. evil, solution vs. technology
In my opinion (and expreience):
1) Linux/Sybase ASE 11.0.3.3/Apache beates the hell out of NT/IIS/SQL-server while
costing nothing. And doing so on _cheaper_ hardware.
2) ASE 11.9 will cost a lot (~MS SQL-server) but MySQL is good enough in most
scenarios.
3) Perl, Python, PHP is _far_ better than VB
Check out:
www.apache.org
perl.apache.org perl.apache.org/embperl www.perl.org
www.php.net
www.zope.org
Thomas
(commence flaming)
Received on Thu Apr 08 1999 - 00:00:00 CEST