Quoting william villanueva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > This may sound stupid but a friend was asking if its possible to develop > a program under VB and MS Access as the db and upload/run them on a > linux server website?
(1) Visual BASIC remains a completely proprietary programming language, in that there are no bug-for-bug compatible third-party interpreter engines. However, there are a number of workalikes, some of them even open-source: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/visual-basic (2) There's no reason why a Web site running on a non-Microsoft platform couldn't use MS Access as its database back-end, in as much as one can reach MS Access via ODBC. However, the real answer is that your friend is almost certainly seeking to solve the wrong problem. Even though software does exist even to do such bizarre things as run Microsoft ASP code via Apache extensions (proprietary software from Chilisoft, now owned by Sun Microsystems, http://wwws.sun.com/software/chilisoft/index.html ), it's much more satisfactory over the long term to recode to use a _real_ language with a _real_ database, e.g., PHP4 back-ended to PostgreSQL. -- Cheers, We write precisely We say exactly Rick Moen Since such is our habit in How to do a thing or how [EMAIL PROTECTED] Talking to machines; Every detail works. Excerpt from Prof. Touretzky's decss-haiku.txt @ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
