T Bryce Yehl: Bryce's Dot Net ChannelNothing but .NETMySQL vs. Cardfile- October 21, 2002 I wasn't going to bash MySQL for offering fewer RDBMS features than say, Microsoft Access, but... Slashdot comment in response to Novell to ship MySQL with Netware 6: In related news, Microsoft announced that Cardfile would be bundled in their next version of Windows.http://radio.ntwizards.net/categories/dotnet/2002/10/21.html#a1301 ASP.NET vs. LAMP- October 21, 2002 Ken Rawlings is lamenting the cost of deploying ASP.NET database applications compared to LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHPPerlPython). I say it's all about the TCO. Licensing is a minor cost compared to development, maintenance, and on-going support. For an unfunded project, look to re-use licenses until funding can be justified. Also, don't ignore the fact that many free software packages will run on Windows. PostgreSQL is almost plug-n-play under Cygwin, can be run as a service, and has...http://radio.ntwizards.net/categories/dotnet/2002/10/21.html#a1300 Diving into ASP.NET- October 11, 2002 I am finally getting around to looking at ASP.NET. Not sure what has taken me so long... if there is any label that can be accurately applied to me, it's ASPVBScript Geek. My highest joy in life used to be figuring out how to do things in pure VBScript when everyone else was resorting to COM objects in VB or C. Getting everything installed on my beater box wasn't too difficult, just had to fix some long-standing permissions problems that prevented Visual Studio from communicating with it....http://radio.ntwizards.net/categories/dotnet/2002/10/11.html#a1291 |