RE: [PHP] PHP/Linux v.s. PHP/Windows

If you want a database on Linux with transactions, don't forget PostgreSQL or InterBase (not to mention Oracle, Sybase, etc.). And, you can easily run both MySQL for your tables that are mostly read and one of the transactional DBs for your tables that are frequently written. MS shops tend to use all MS products (IIS+MSQL+ASP) because MS kinda encourages that sort of thing. And, that is really the deciding factor. The main reason to use Windows is if a company exclusively uses software that is only available on Windows (e.g. MSSQL). > > Would the most important factor for shops not to convert from a IIS, SQL > Server , NT , ASP environment to a Linux, MySQL , Perl, PHP, > Apache solution > be the Mysql database is not fully transactional. It seems that > for the long > term this would be a superior course than trying to get PHP and > other nicer > development tools that run better on Linux to work on NT.