Sorry, just saw this post (was 1000 emails behind - long, boring story) and
it didn't include Bruce Young's address.
Bruce, if you're out there, let me know. I have several references for
inexpensive web relational databases and several free flat dbs.
Christie
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter J. Schoenster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, August 04, 1998 8:27 PM
Subject: WC:>: database backed websites (was which db to use)
>On 4 Aug 98, at 16:29, Bruce Young wrote:
>
>> I have to give a confernece session next week where one of the faculty
>> lecturers will be "interviewing" me about the use of relational DB's and
>> the web, tools etc. I use CF but as that may be too expensive for schools
>> (Asian financial crisis etc) I was keeping an eye out for similiar
>> free/cheap systems. I did know about PHP and thanks for the Miva
>> reference.
>>
>> The reason I'm being "interviewed" is that I don't know exactly the
>> details of the syllabus for the subject that the schools want to use it
>> in... the lecturer does, so he'll be my translator. :)
>>
>> Are there any other free systems that upper level students could use?
>
>The resource I always go back to is Phillip Greenspun.
>
>Building Relational Database-Backed Web Sites
>
>http://photo.net/wtr/rdbms-backed.html
>
>His favorite tools are
>
>AOLserver (AOL just bought it).
>tcl (I'm sure it is like Perl but I am not sure)
>
>--quote
>If this frightens you, you could just use NaviServer 2.0. Wizards Jim
>Davidson and Doug McKee have done all of the above work for you and
>it has been tested in hundreds of production sites since May 1995. I
>have personally used this software for several heavily used sites and
>feel that it is without question the best way to go for RDBMS-backed
>sites. You can write all of your code in C or Tcl and talk to the
>database. The Tcl runs inside the NaviServer's process and imposes no
>significant overhead (Tcl is a slug but that is negligible compared
>to the cost of going out to the RDBMS). [Note: I maintain a server of
>NaviServer example apps, complete with source code.]
>--end quote
>
>AOL bought NaviServer and changed the name.
>
>Peter
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