Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Sun Sep 15 18:48:47 CDT 2013
Hi Stuart: I will keep that in mind as I have been rebuilding all the beater boxes in Linux. (It would be better to have a Mercury Mail Server on an old box in case it gets compromised.) Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2013 2:55:35 PM Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] google going all in with mariaDB Not just for testing. Just like Mercury Mail Server, it's a good way to re-use a clunker old PC in a small/medium office environment. You don't need a high end server for either of them. an old XP workstation that had difficulty with the lates MS Office does fine. (In fact I sometimes run both on the same semi-retired workstation). -- Stuart On 15 Sep 2013 at 15:26, Jim Lawrence wrote: > Hi Stuart: > > Yes, you are right as such a system, on a desktop, could be a great > testing platform. (I have only run web servers on servers.) > > Jim > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> > To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> > Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2013 2:06:43 PM > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] google going all in with mariaDB > > It works very well. I run it on my development laptop and use for all my clients' website > development. > > I also use it in a couple of locations for Intranets. > > -- > Stuart > > On 15 Sep 2013 at 6:44, Jim Lawrence wrote: > > > Hi Stuart: > > > > Interesting, I have not seen WAMPServer before... I have always > > installed the components on IIS when working with Windows. How well > > does it work? Does it compile on Windows? > > > > Jim > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com