Connecting Zope to Sybase: Linux or Irix ?
I'm just beginning with Zope, and just beginning with a project to develop some new software product management (bug tracking and such) tools for use within Silicon Graphics (SGI). Zope appears to be an excellent fit for many of our needs. I will need to connect with an existing large Sybase database (the existing bug data). I can freely choose to use either Linux or Irix for the server side operating system.
From which server O.S. would it be easiest to get Zope connected to Sybase? Something I read on www.zope.org led me to suspect that I should use Irix, so that I can use our Sybase licensed library, and that Linux wouldn't work, because of a lack of the needed library.
Is that so? Any other obvious factors that I should consider in this choice? ======================================================================= I won't rest till it's the best ... Software Production Engineer Paul Jackson (pj@sgi.com; pj@usa.net) 3x1373 http://sam.engr.sgi.com/pj
At 11:40 AM 3/1/99 -0800, Paul Jackson wrote:
I'm just beginning with Zope, and just beginning with a project to develop some new software product management (bug tracking and such) tools for use within Silicon Graphics (SGI).
Zope appears to be an excellent fit for many of our needs.
I will need to connect with an existing large Sybase database (the existing bug data).
I can freely choose to use either Linux or Irix for the server side operating system.
From which server O.S. would it be easiest to get Zope connected to Sybase? Something I read on www.zope.org led me to suspect that I should use Irix, so that I can use our Sybase licensed library, and that Linux wouldn't work, because of a lack of the needed library.
Is that so? Any other obvious factors that I should consider in this choice?
FWIW, my shop is running Sybase OpenClient 11.1.1 on IRIX 6.2, 6.4, and 6.5 on a Challenge/S, O2000, and Challenge/L, respectively. I successfully installed ZSybaseDA into Zope on the Challenge/S; haven't tried on any others. Also FWIW, I have experienced nothing but problems getting PCGI to work on any of the IRIX platforms; your mileage may vary. (Coincidentally, the company I work for owns a couple hundred SGI boxes and we keep our inventory of them in a ZPublisher app... it's on mySQL, though, not Sybase. OTOH, our request tracking system is a ZPublisher-on-Sybase app.)
Also FWIW, I have experienced nothing but problems getting PCGI to work on any of the IRIX platforms; your mileage may vary.
Does this include the latest version of PCGI? FWIW, I'm willing to work with anyone getting PCGI to work on their platform of choice. Best regards, Jeff Bauer Rubicon, Inc.
At 02:29 PM 3/1/99 -0600, Jeff Bauer wrote:
Does this include the latest version of PCGI?
FWIW, I'm willing to work with anyone getting PCGI to work on their platform of choice.
The last version I tried was the one distributed with Zope 1.9.0 - it exhibited the same fail-on-process startup behavior as previous versions, so I went to ZServer as a stopgap until I could complete a FastCGI replacement. I'm now using FastCGI, so it's no longer an issue.
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