Dear Rick,
On Monday, June 02, 2003 11:32 AM, you wrote:
> (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
Thanks. I'll look that up and refer them to it as well.
> (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.
So, they can just upload the Access DB to the server? I mean do they need
to setup some programs on the system?
> 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.
>
Which is why I said it sounds like a stupid question. :-)
Thanks again.
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William
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