For filePro and overall strength which is best, SUSE or RedHat?

Walter Vaughan wvaughan at steelerubber.com
Fri Mar 4 08:21:14 PST 2005


Lerebours, Jose wrote:

> Need to make a decision on OS for, potentially, deploying
> filePro.  I have played with both RedHat and SUSE and 
> found SUSE to work pretty well and it was very easy to
> install.

Gotta put a plug in for freeBSD.
You get to pick all three
	( ) Fast
	( ) Stable
	( ) Excellent support

> I am intending on mirroring my filePro files in MySQL to
> provide ODBC visibility.  I am not sure if I should run
> MySQL on same server as filePro or on a different server.

What about using fpODBC clients? They can talk directly to MySQL tables.

> I am planning on using PHP or Perl (or both) to push data
> from filePro to MySQL.

With the cost of 600 user licenses, unless you are dealing with many 
modules, I'd just write the thing with tools that exist in the open 
source world and just leave filePro out of it.

--
Walter



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