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

Hi All, I would also like to mention FrontBase (www.frontbase.com) a fast, small foortprint and easy to use database for many platforms. The php support is 100% MySQL compliant and it supports transactions and sub selects. Best of all: Its free :-) - Frank >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. > > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > >