Re: PHP 5.0.0 Beta 1 : alternatives to MySQL?

I've been completely M$ free for almost a year now. My desktops and laptop were converted at that time. My servers have always run Linux, FreeBSD, AIX, or Solaris. Yes, Wine needs some serious smoothing, but I don't have to run windows software very often. On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 09:09, Stan Lemon wrote: > Graham, > I personally am on an anti-Microsoft trip at the moment. I have > hundreds of dollars invested in multiple copis of MSOffice Pro, > Publisher, Win XP, Win 2K, Win2K3, IIS5, and IIS5.1, and several other > MS apps. About 5 months ago I got so fed up I told Microsoft to jump in > the river and I wasn't gonna follow. Since I've replaced almost every > copy of that expensive Microsoft Office with OpenOffice.org or > StarOffice, and IE has been replaced with Moz, Outlook, with MozMail, > etc. The only MS product that remains on my system are the OS, and that > is because when I installed RedHat on my lappy (last time was about a > month ago) I had terrible driver support for my touch pad. Honestly > that, and the fact that Wine made me want to pass out, I am only hanging > on to windows by a thread. > > Anyhow, enough ranting and raving... If the day comes when Linux has > the drivers I need, I'll be dumping my Win32 right into the circular > file. Until then though, I am forced into this position. > > - Stan > > Graham Clarke wrote: > > > Stan - We just jumped into RedHat & Postgres & love it. After years > > of MS SQL, w2k server, etc... we started a project this spring where > > open source server software was a must. for $600 I've got a used > > VALinux running apache, postgres, & php. > > > > Postgres is really good. Fast and powerful. We now prefer it over MS > > SQL. > > > > It's definitely a change in mind set, but so much cleaner and more > > simple than windows. Setting up PEAR was effortless. I could go on & > > on. Wish I'd started using linux years ago. > > > > Graham > > > > > > For > > At 09:46 AM 7/2/2003 -0500, Stan Lemon wrote: > > > >> Markus, > >> I've been watching them talk about that for quite some time, and > >> would love for them to finally do that. However, I question their > >> (mid 2003) projection, and honestly think that we windowers are going > >> to have to wait a big longer. > >> > >> - Stan > >> > >> P.S. How is it possible for me to get the SQLite dcumentation off of > >> CVS, I've never touched CVS before so I'm starting anew. > >> > >> Markus Wolff wrote: > >> > >>> Stan Lemon wrote: > >>> > >>>> Postgre would hold a possibility if tere was a decent Win32 copy > >>>> out. I've played with their current release, which you need to > >>>> cygwin to run, I think I'd rather try compiling PHP w/ mySQL after > >>>> that experience. It was horrible, no joke. (I would be interested > >>>> in anyone who has somehow managed to get it wo work.) > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> The next Version of PostgreSQL (7.4, I believe) is supposed to have > >>> native Windows support without the need for Cygwin and the like. I > >>> don´t know when it´s gonna be out, though. > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> Markus > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> PEAR General Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >> > > > > > > Graham Clarke > > GrahamC@53Tech.com > > www.53Tech.com > > 603.643.9955 > > > > > >