Re: [HACKERS] OT moving from MS SQL to PostgreSQL

You could use Sun's ASP engine which was originally produced by chilisoft.

http://wwws.sun.com/software/chilisoft/

-Edwin

On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 11:24:28 -0600, Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)qwest(dot)net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 06:33, stig erikson wrote:
> > Hello.
> > i have an slightly off topic question, but i hope that somebody might know.
> >
> > at the moment we have a database on a MS SQL 7 server.
> > This data will be transfered to PostgreSQL 7.4.5 or PostgreSQL 8 (when
> > it is released). so far so good.
> >
> > the question now arises, this current database is used in web
> > application made with ASP on IIS5. The idea is to move the database and
> > the application to a linux or unix environment. Is there a tool that can
> > be used convert ASP pages into PHP (or any other language suitable for
> > linux/unix), or should we prepare to rewrite most of the code?
> >
> > Is there a tool, some add-in to apache perhaps that can run ASP code on
> > linux/unix, this would help to have the system running while we recode
> > the application.
>
> There are a few tools I've seen that will try to convert ASP to PHP, but
> for the most part, they can't handle very complex code, so you're
> probably better off just rewriting it and learning PHP on the way.
>
> By the way, I have moved this over to -general, as this is quite off
> topic for -hackers. Next person to reply please remove the
> pgsql-hackers address from the CC list please.
>
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