Re: Me too: Moving to NT

PHP has alot out for MySQL interaction...not much help if the bosses
want CF, though...

As for Perl programmers, my address is mailto:admin(at)webctr.com...:

Darrell

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----- Original Message -----
From: <John.ksi(at)webplus.net>
To: <hwg-servers(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 1:28 PM
Subject: Me too: Moving to NT


> Let me idly comment on:
> >Putting aside how I feel about everything Micro$oft, I'm going
> >to have to deal with this.
>
> and say "Me too."  :)
>
> We're not the most MicroSoft-savvy bunch of people here, but
> management here likes the idea of using ColdFusion to develop
> web apps quickly - especially since there's apparently a greater
> pool of CF-savvy people than Perl people.  Also, we're having a
> hard time finding Perl programmers right now anyway plus some of
> the CF pre-fab'd apps look appealing.  (We've duly considered
> and ruled out InterDev.)
>
> We also do not need the big database engines: Oracle, Sybase and
> Informix all seem like using a dump truck to pull a little red
> wagon.  MS SQL-server is still too MicroSoft-centric for our
> tastes - tho' I know we can probably import/export stuff fairly
> readily.  But anyway, we're currently leaning toward mySQL.
>
> Management would not be adverse to a Linux solution, but
> a Linux/CF/mySQL combo isn't quite yet available.  So with
> a grimace from me, we're about to turn to NT.  But at least
> when this Linux combo DOES become available, we have the option
> of turning to it later.  I'm eying Cobalt servers...one day.
>
> Anyway, like I said, these are just idle comments.  Opinions
> to the contrary are certainly welcome.
>
>  -John Koch                               -  -  -  __o
>  Knowledge Systems, Inc.              -  -  - -  _ \<,_
>  <John.ksi(at)webplus.net>                   - -   (_)/ (_)
>
>

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