[dba-Tech] Apps for Linux? (was: Linux vs Windows)

I know of a few, but I wouldn't be able to recommend one, since I live in the web app world, but I've heard great things about Qt Creator (http://qt.digia.com/Product/Developer-Tools/).

- Hans



On 2013-01-10, at 9:30 AM, "Dan Waters" <df.waters at comcast.net> wrote:

> Hi Art,
> 
> All of that sounds like web apps - which I have decided not to do.  
> 
> Is there anything equivalent to a .Net Winform app?
> 
> Thanks!
> Dan
> 
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> 
> Apps for Linux...
> 
> Open Office or OfficeLibre give you everything Office does except Access.
> There is Open Office Base but it's nowhere near as powerful as is Access.
> In terms of #.Net, there is the Mono project and its C# compiler. In terms
> of SQL Server, you have MySQL Oracle Express, PostGres and a few NoSQL
> entries. As regards a front end for MySQL or other databases, the most
> common approach is PHP + Apache, but Ruby on Rails is also very popular; so
> is Python. See also our (Peter's and my) TheUsual.php (available from our
> web site (artfulsoftware.com). For typical db admin stuff, there are
> SQLBench and phpAdmin. And not to forget Tcl/Tk for designing GUIs. Perl is
> pretty much history.
> 
> Arthur
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