On Monday, Apr 25, 2005, at 09:50 US/Central, Ed Howland wrote:

<lots of good info elided>

Robert Citek wrote:
When you say "SQL server stuff" do you mean a generic SQL server or MS SQL Server? I ask because I know that ASP/VBScript can connect to MySQL via ODBC. (Gonna try to make ASP/VBScript connect to MySQL via ADO tonight.)

I specifically ment MS SQL Server. Of course any ODBC stuff should port directly to Mono apps. Bielieve it or not, there are some coders who have never heard of non-MS products and their work shows it.

I do believe it because I've seen it.

Get Edd Dumbills' "Mono Notebool" Cheap good and straight to the point.

Found Edd's site with a link to the book:

  http://usefulinc.com/edd/books/mono-notebook

I also recall that Sams was publishing a book on Mono, but couldn't find it.

The reason I'm asking is because I working with a group that teaches high school students computing technology. Currently, it's IIS/ASP/VBScript with MySQL, but we're looking to the future and they are seeing .NET. Apparently, an MS person drops by regularly to give them pep-talks and swag, and brief them on up-and-coming technology. I'd like to broaden their vision.

If going to .Net. Mono is your OSS friend. Some big sites are using it. Don't have any URLs *check Mono home site) but Netcraft report 1% of all ASP.Net sites are using Mono.

Found the mono site:

  http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page

but couldn't find the list of sites that are using it. However, I did see this on the Mono site: "Mono can run existing programs targeting the .NET or Java frameworks." Does this mean I can run Java programs under Mono?

BTW, the mono wiki is using MediWiki. Makes me wonder why not a wiki in Mono.

Regards,
- Robert
http://www.cwelug.org/downloads
Help others get OpenSource software.  Distribute FLOSS
for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent


_______________________________________________
CWE-LUG mailing list
http://www.cwelug.org/ [email protected]
http://lists.firepipe.net/listinfo/cwe-lug

Reply via email to