Hi Michael The information you give is a bit too scarce to really get a feeling of what you want to do.
>>I have a prospect who is using progress Client on Windows to talk to a >>Progress Database. he wants to put the Progress Client onto Linux. Is >>this something we can do using Mono? Progress is available for Linux. You an go to their website, and do a search on Linux. [www.progress.com] If the client software was written entirely in their 4GL (their executable files named *.r), you should be able to run it on Linux without recompiling - they have a runtime engine which is conceptually the same as .NET and Java principle - compile once - run everywhere. The Progress client is the runtime that will need to be deployed with their *.r files, and is entirely independent of Mono, as Progress is a commercial product. If your client application was written in some other language (I assume that's why you posted here) then you will need to check if there are Windows-specific API calls, etc in the client code that may limit such a porting. In this case, you can always put the database server on a Linux box, and use ODBC/JDBC to access the database from a Windows box, just as you would with any Windows database. I think you would not need the Progress client at all in these cases, but check that with your Progress dealer. Your question about Mono as I understand it then becomes one of being able to access a Progress ODBC driver from Mono. Have a look on www.go-mono.org There is an entry of May 20, 2003 about Openlink's involvement with the Mono project. When I worked on Progress a few years ago, Openlink was a major supplier of ODBC drivers for Progress, so your chances of accessing Progress from Mono may be pretty good. (I have never tried it myself). Hope that I could help Regards Willem Semmelink DigiCore _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
