On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:34:56AM +0000, Richard Lewis wrote:
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 08:18:10 +0000, "Chris Green" chris@areti.co.uk said:
On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 07:46:51PM +0000, Jenny Hopkins wrote:
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 18:33:44 +0000, Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk wrote:
How easy is it nowadays to migrate an Access application to Linux?
I'm getting rather fed-up with trying to maintain an Access 97 application on Windows 2000 and migrating to Linux might be the answer.
Do you mean an equivalent application? I've moved a work MS Access database to linux by putting the back end in postgresql and rewriting the front end in html/php and serving it over our intranet, it's taken me a long time to do it though. Worth the effort and I only have one front end to maintain. Is this what you mean?
In the end, yes, maybe. It's actually quite a simple application and an HTML/PHP front end would be a brilliant idea. However a 'quick and dirty' bodge for the moment would be useful too!
I wonder what you can do with Mono (http://go-mono.org)? Mono will probably understand your Basic code and you could easily extract your SQL from Access and insert it into MySQL......
Thanks for the link. However I suspect that it might take almost as much effort as biting the bullet and doing it 'properly' using PHP or whatever. (Especially given my lack of knowledge and dislike of VB)