Thanks to the great response to our inquiry.
The consensus of the group is to use MySQL--a MiniSQL
clone/superset. Mysql uses C++ and later versions have worked fine in
DU environments and there are now pre-compiled binaries available.
Other suggestions were postgres, ingres and solid.
Rick Beebe and Gerald McLarnon also suggested that another "must have" is
PHP. PHP is an html-embedded (like javascript)
server-side (unlike javascript) scripting language that has built-in
support for all of the above mentioned databases. It makes it very
easy to create database-generated pages. It can also be made as an
apache module so that it automatically parses pages of your choosing
(we use .phtml and .php3 here).
Thanks again for the quick response.
Keith C. Barth
Applications Systems Manager
College Computing
Aquinas College
1607 Robinson Road, SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49506
mailto:barthkei_at_aquinas.edu
Received on Thu Apr 16 1998 - 14:27:39 NZST