- From: Kee Hinckley <nazgul@utopia.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 10:27:46 -0400
- To: www-rdb@www10.w3.org
- Cc: support@sybase.com, info@sybase.com
Before we make a final decision on this, I wanted to get some additional feedback (the sooner the better) from anyone who might have gone down this path before. We are putting together a Web/Sybase interface for a client. The actual database will be Sybase System 10 running on a Pentium NT. The Web server will be Netscape's. Queries to the DB are all through stored procedures, so we have a well-defined set of possible queries and possible results. Writes to the DB may be (although we'd rather not) asynchronous, and are only possible for a limited number of items. Our original plan was to use WDB and Sybperl to access the database. Initially generating all result pages on the fly, then moving to a page-caching scheme if necessary. Caching might be done either on a per-query bases, or by pre-generating pages nightly and on writes. We have three options for the web-server platform (different machine than the DB server) 1. Pentium NT 2. Pentium BSDI 3. SPARC Solaris As I see it, we have the following issues. If there are any more (or less), I'd love to hear it. Option 1 (NT) o Is Netscape's NT server shipping yet? o ntperl exists, but is sybperl portable? o And if so, is the same Open Client interface available? Option 2 (BSDI) o Is Open Client available for this platform? o Any other way to access Sybase from perl? Option 3 (Solaris) o Open Client is available, sybperl should run, any other issues? o Any problems with a cross-platform database connection? (Solaris<->NT) It looks to us like Option 3 is the way to go. But I suspect the client would prefer PC hardware and/or a non-Unix solution, so we need to fully explore all the options. Of course they need a decision today. Comments? Kee Hinckley Utopia Inc. - Cyberspace Architects 617/721-6100 nazgul@utopia.com http://www.utopia.com/
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