[KLUG Members] Re: Postgresql -- ASP v. hardware for Windows admins

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>Yet another option is to support MS-SQL under NT or PostgreSQL under Linux,
>and ensure that the PHP code uses ODBC calls (or your wrappers around your
>DB calls).

ODBC in PHP works very well,  and PostgreSQL's API was designed with ODBC in
mind allowing you to use ODBC with very little overhead and almost no
performance penatly at all.

<RANT>If you want to sell "software" this is the best solution.  Then someone
could use it with there existing Oracle, Informix, or DB2 installation.  It is
an annoying thing that most Open Source developers don't think about the fact
that thier package will have to exist alongside others,  and that the structure
of those pre-existing enviroments get to dictate things things to "new"
packages.  Too many packages tie themselves to one database engine and want
their own database defined in that database, verses the possibility of
create-ing tables/views in an existing database so that applications can be
integrated. </RANT>

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