On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
Hi Peter,
On 2/18/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Basically, it is you who impressed the TCO of the current system on
your father's firm.
OK, I admit it's partly my fault. But it was not only my decision.
It was about 10 years ago, my father c
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 11:54:37AM +0200, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
> By the way, 10 years ago there was no PHP, no MySQL as far as I know,
> and no alternatives to Access. There was something called Magic, this
> might have been the only alternative. Even today, I don't know any
> application which
Hi Peter,
On 2/18/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Basically,
it is you who impressed the TCO of the current system on your father's
firm.
OK, I admit it's partly my fault. But it was not only my decision.
It was about 10 years ago, my father consulted an expert and he
recommended using M
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 10:49:10AM +0200, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
> Are you sure? I heard different opinions here. Will the Access
> database data get corrupted if the server is not Windows? Can Samba
> handle record & table locking in Access? Or can it not?
Unfortunately all I can find by STFW'i
On 2/18/07, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Without SQL server you don't get record locking, etc. If you try to use
Access to update a database on a SAMBA share, you will end up with corrupt
data.
Are you sure? I heard different opinions here. Will the Access
database data ge
On Sunday 18 February 2007 01:57, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
> On 2/17/07, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Is it a requirement that it be "Access", or should it be "a database
> > server"?
>
> It has to be Access - it's not only a database, but a whole program
> written in Access, with at
On 2/18/07, Arieh Skliarouk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How many companies do you know, which are not computer companies, who use
Linux?
Many. Mostly on servers. Just as your father's company can.
I was refering to end users computers and not to servers.
I wrote you another message (differen
Hello Uri,
But if we do decide to convert, we will convert only the tables (there are
at least 50 of them) and not the
entire program.
I see only-tables conversion as good first step. There is howto on
access-mysql conversion:
http://www.kitebird.com/articles/access-migrate.html
How many com
On 2/17/07, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is it a requirement that it be "Access", or should it be "a database
server"?
It has to be Access - it's not only a database, but a whole program
written in Access, with at least 50 forms, at least 100 queries and
lots of VB code. I wrote
On Sunday 18 February 2007 00:00, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 11:09:26PM +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
> > I am not sure I understood the OP question, and neither am I sure others
> > did. If you intend to use the server, as others guessed, only as a file
> > server fo
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 11:09:26PM +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
> I am not sure I understood the OP question, and neither am I sure others
> did. If you intend to use the server, as others guessed, only as a file
> server for Access, then samba will probably be just as good. If they
> intend to
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 11:45:38AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Uri Even-Chen wrote:
> > Dear Linux people,
> >
> > First, I want to apologize if any of you were offended or harassed by
> > the messages I sent to this list about 3 months ago.
> No problem.
Me too :-)
> > and a server for
> > M
Uri Even-Chen wrote:
> Dear Linux people,
>
> First, I want to apologize if any of you were offended or harassed by
> the messages I sent to this list about 3 months ago.
No problem.
> and a server for
> Microsoft Access. The Access program will be executed by a few users
> simultaneously.
Is it a
On Saturday 17 February 2007 10:20, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
> Dear Linux people,
>
> First, I want to apologize if any of you were offended or harassed by
> the messages I sent to this list about 3 months ago. I didn't mean to
> offend anybody.
>
> I want to ask you something about Linux servers. My
Quoth Uri Even-Chen:
> the messages I sent to this list about 3 months ago. I didn't mean to
> offend anybody.
That's ok, old chap. Better to offend and ask forgiveness than to not
offend and ask permission...
[snip]
> My father asked an expert from a company we work with, and the expert
> rec
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