Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Jan 10 12:51:45 CST 2013
Good summary Arthur. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 8:00 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Apps for Linux? (was: Linux vs Windows) 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 _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com