** Reply to note from Mike Lowndes <[log in to unmask]> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 17:56:18 +0100
> We are in a similar situation: anyone who can find us robust and not
> too expensive ODBC connectivity software from UNIX to NT SQL Server
> databases will be bought beers! Currently all our data access pages
> lie on NT because of this problem.
Watching this with interest :-)
What are the consequences of serving the data direct from the NT server?
(eg. security, different URL, load on machine ... ?)
It sounds as an extra layer of complexity+problems with slower performance
trying to communicate between two servers. What is the catch?
TIA.
Charles
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