[GLLUG] General programming question

Basher584 basher584@basher584.org
Thu, 1 Aug 2002 17:43:01 -0400


Never used it, its not opensource, but I ran across it one day and your email reminded me of it..

warning.. crashed my galeon (1.2.5) but worked with opera.
http://thekompany.com/products/rekall/

-Ben


On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 05:02:32PM -0400, Jason Green wrote:
> I'm looking for a good combination of a front-end interface/programming
> language and a scalable back-end database.  After a bit of research, I'm
> leaning towards PHP on Apache with PostgreSQL.  This will be used to develop
> an accounting system for a niche market with customizable reporting
> abilities and will generate government reports and contracts.  Replication
> is important (hourly backups if a mirroring-type solution is not available).
> 
> I've never used PHP (and not much HTML), but have a decent amount of C/C++
> knowledge.  However, my primary skills are in MS Access and VB/VBA.  I
> looked at pgAccess which is a Tcl/Tk app that tries to mimic MS Access.
> It's not very impressive yet, but has a lot of potential.
> 
> I like PostgreSQL's transaction support as well as the "better than
> record-level locking" they use.  This application will need to accommodate
> roughly 100 concurrent users.  I really like Access for it's rapid
> application deployment abilities, but I've experienced too much database
> corruption, it's slow for multi-user applications, and won't really scale to
> my needs.  Plus, MS's licensing is getting ridiculous, and I refuse to
> license MS SQL Server when open source alternatives exist.
> 
> So, has anyone developed any applications with this kind of usage level?
> What would you recommend for database software, easy to manipulate front
> ends (and intuitive for end users), or other general suggestions?  Any
> specific resources you've found helpful?  Oh yeah, if you have a suggestion
> for database software, which OS works the best for it?  Thanks in advance!
> 
> Jason Green
> greenja6@msu.edu
> 
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