Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Re: Why MacOS X Server?
Author: Paul Snively Posted: 7/24/2000; 6:09:04 PM Topic: scriptingNews outline for 3/11/99 Msg #: 18982 (In response to 18981) Prev/Next: 18981 / 18983
Jonathan Hendry: I got the impression that AOLServer is highly Oracle-oriented, though that may have changed. Apache, on the other hand, seems to play with most anything.I think this is the downside to AOLServer getting most of its publicity from Philip Greenspun, who, for very good reasons, uses Oracle for all his sites. Nevertheless, <http://www.aolserver.com/dist/> offers drivers for Postgres, Solid, MySQL, Interbase, Oracle, and Informix databases. A nice mix of the big commercial offerings (only Sybase seems to be missing, as far as I can tell) and the free/open source offerings.
Also, the database drivers aren't any more magical than any other C-based module: if you want Sybase/MS SQL Server support, you could probably start with FreeTDS and the AOLServer programmer's docs and knock yourself out.
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