A belated thank you for the replies to my question about running
Witango
on Mac Leopard last week.
I guess the quick summary is that I dont want to go there. I do not
need to run on Leopard.
So I guess my real question is what is the best Mac setup to run
Witango?
Basically, I have a truly archaic Tango setup working now. (Tango 2
running on WebStar 4 on OS 9, talking to a Butler database server
running on OS 8). It is all on prehistoric hardware, that has been
running forever. But its tolerable performance, and its been working
but the hardware is starting to die. I was going to do the upgrade
to Tango 3 when it came out, but the early
releases were pretty buggy, so I put it off.. and off.. ;-) I
again
started to work on upgrading it about 5 years ago, but hit some major
changes in business, and the old Tango stuff was working, so it
fell to
the bottom of the priority list.
I need to get it moved to something more modern. I dont need to
change
the functionality, I just want to be able to run it on new
hardware that
can keep it all working for a while longer. Maybe when the new
hardware
becomes unsupportable, there will be other options for keeping it
going
or the time and priority to rewrite it.
I still don't have a huge amount of time right now to throw at
this, so
the goal is a simple and reliable solution. I do have some end of
year
money if I can buy something to make it easier.
I REALLY want to stick with Mac hardware and OS on this if at all
possible.
Thus, 3 issues.. database, server, and studio.
Database.. seems like lots of options. mySQL seems easy and widely
used. I have already gotten all the data exported out of Butler
and done
trial imports into mySQL and that seems to work fine. If some
other DB
worked better, and was not too expensive, that would be fine, but
I dont
want to get caught in the proprietary and out of business trap again,
like I did with Butler (Butler was a good option at the time). For
Witango, I have collected various versions along the way, so I have
copies of Pervasive 3.5 and 2000, as well as Witango 5.0, and can buy
5.5 if needed. I already tried porting the old .qry files and I can
use 3.5 to convert the old 2.x files to a .taf and then 5.5 demo
version
was able to read the 3.5 files. I can run any of the above
software, and I can do OS 10.3 or 10.4, PPC
or Intel. JDBC or ODBC. And no problem to buy drivers if needed.
The critical part of this is for internal use only and sits behind a
good firewall, so security issues with old OS versions are not a
major
problem.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Bob
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Bob Parks [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.kidsource.com " We call it theory when
we know much about something but nothing works,
and practice when everything works but nobody knows why."
- Albert Einstein
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