On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 08:12:11PM +1100, Eddie F wrote: > They are our own applications which are constantly being updated already, > and since we'll be looking at having to spend so much on licensing, it will > be worth at least considering the migration if possible. Currently they are > built using BuildPro, accessing/manipulating data on RedHat 8.0 DB servers > (Informix/C-ISAM).
I have no idea what BuildPro is, but if it's not some custom bollocks language then there's a fair chance that a port won't be out of the question. Even C# is supported (to some degree) by the Mono project. > Also Crystal Reports Writer is being used, but I'm sure this there are open > source equivalents for this. Report generators are one of the things which are a bit light on in the Linux world, unfortunately. I don't know how complex a report generator you need, but I've not heard anyone say "this is as good as Crystal Reports". > MetaFrame was chosen many years ago as a means to deliver an online GUI > application, that could run on any win32 client PC and then applications > where built. Incidentally we have no control over client PCs as these are > not ours. We have to provide accessability to win32 clients. There's no shortage of X Windows clients for windows, and it's just a choice between installing a MetaFrame client or an X client. - Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
