Re: RDBMS for DOS and Windows
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Hola, Arlie Codina escribi=F3 el 2000/02/25 02:08:07:
>There are still of considerable number of small businesses that can only
>afford to buy a used 486 at $125 per unit.Aside from maintaining my legacy
>applications I'm also targetting this small businesses because I can still
>make money making applications. Also we still have museums here that sells
>spare parts for this type of boxes.
I'm not sure if this applies to your especific client but it certainly is
something to consider in your target market.
You can have a Linux box to emulate a Netware server with a free package
called Marsnw. I used it for six months and have 100 users connected
(attached) using office97 shared installation from this server that were
simultaneusly connected to a Netware server. I also used it for backups to
disk using tar and some utilities that let you access a netware server from
a Linux box (ncpfs utils) it worked just great and I could also hack some
code to change passwords in batch and some administrative tasks that were a
pain.
Using a linux server has many advantages. You can use your legacy software
with the same clients (ipx, netx, odi, vlms, wfwg, win32 etc and there's
also a free client available) and you can have a bunch of new services WEB,
remote access, proxy, RDBMS, etc. If you use odi or packet you can have
tcp/ip and IPX under DOS, even win311 can use both simultaneously with
packet and tcpmux (I don't have all the details now but if you need
something I can look in old backups). If I remember well there are at least
two free DOS browsers available and several mail (pop) clients. All of this
can add value to an existing installation and let you do more things with
existing stuff.
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Fabio Ramirez R.
Network Admin.
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