Bob,
Thanks for your great testimonial!
Keeping up with today's ever-changing technology and
incorporating R:BASE and OTERRO to provide a total solution
for current needs has always been a challenge on which I thrive.
We'll make every effort to live up to the high expectations
of our LOYAL and CURRENT R:BASE Community!
The BEST is yet to come ...
Very Best Regards,
Razzak.
At 11:46 AM 5/17/2001 -0400, Bob Powell wrote:
>Daniel,
>
> I am no expert on this subject but I have succeeded
>in doing at least some of what you are asking about.
>
> Here at Hotchkiss we don't like NT so one of my
>first concerns was using it at all. Oterro requires NT so
>I discussed it with my web guys and they agreed to try it
>in order for us to continue to use R:BASE as our
>centralized database. R:Base has worked extremly well for
>us over the years but with the advent of the web and the
>need to provide a web interface to our databases we needed
>a solution. Razzak told us that Oterro was the answer. He
>told us that Oterro would do the trick for us and to try
>it.
>
> My web guys were currently using PHP and of course
>were sceptical since they didn't know a thing about R:Tango
>and quite frankly probably didn't want to have to learn it.
>Also, they were no fans of IIS.
>
> At any rate I had Razzak and his fellows put
>together and configure an NT server at his shop and ship it
>to us for testing. To make a long story short, we were
>able to eliminate having to use IIS (which we knew we
>didn't like to begin with) and only use the NT box for
>Oterro as a gateway to the R:Base database. We are able to
>use a bridge product that allows us to use Apache web
>server and PHP to develop web content.
>
> So what we have is an R:BASE database running on a
>Novell server being impacted by calls from PHP through
>oterro to an Apache Web server. It can be done and it
>works. There was a posting I put on this list serv a
>couple of months ago written by my web guy that expains the
>process and the materials needed. If you are interested I
>will try and dig it up.
>
> By eliminating IIS on the NT box we were able to
>hit the Apache server with 100 simultaneous calling for a
>table of over 500 records hits with very good speed.
>Speed that was acceptable even to the web guys. I truly
>beleive that IIS needs to be elimated from the mix.
>
> Although this hasn't been put on line yet, the
>initial tests we have run on this rig look very very
>promising. R:BASE is truly a GREAT product. Good Luck.
>
>
>On Wed, 16 May 2001 18:13:30 -0500 DanielW
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Can anyone tell me if there is a simple way of integrating PHP with
RBase on
>> a hosted server? Most people use PHP with MySQL, but of course, I'd prefer
>> to use TGRB. However, I doubt my hosting company has Oterro on the web
>> server. Is there away around this? And, will PHP work with RBase at all?
>>
>
>----------------------
>Bob Powell
>The Hotchkiss School
>Lakeville, Connecticut
>Systems Administrator
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
