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

[Lerebours, Jose]

Walter posted:

> > 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 tried freeBSD once and was not able to get it to install
on my PC (I think it was a Pentium 4).  I then went out and
got a copy of SuSE 9.1

> > 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.
> 

A possibility but it may increase cost of deployment and that
is "too high" as it is.

> > 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.
> 

Code is already written and fully functional.  The one part that
is pending to be done is MySQL which I can gradually do.

Regards;


Jose Lerebours