Hi All,
I currently (and have done for a long time) work on a legacy Unix application. It's well over 20 years old but still does the job well enough. Biggest issue it isn't on any database platform so getting data in/out is a pain and a simple report takes way longer than it should.
So the decision has come to try to piece-meal (in theory it's possible) sections of the system and produce a web based app (under Linux) with MySQL as the database.
Consensus seems to be use something like PHP would give everything required.
There needs to be enough 'power' to interact with other systems (wether it been for accounts on a windows platform or hand held devices things like that) -- though I can guess we can write C code (and libs) to include in.
My friend has been doing some develoopment for a while now using Ruby/Rails and he thinks it's great.
Our company would have to bring in additional resource so I'd be worried about us finding someone to do Ruby/Rails rather than PHP/Web Coder.
I'm just looking for any advice or experiences on what platforms / languages people have used. Looking towards Linux as our existing application is a Unix application and it would in theory be much easier to interact in terms of data (as we can write native code for our legacy app).
Cheers
I currently (and have done for a long time) work on a legacy Unix application. It's well over 20 years old but still does the job well enough. Biggest issue it isn't on any database platform so getting data in/out is a pain and a simple report takes way longer than it should.
So the decision has come to try to piece-meal (in theory it's possible) sections of the system and produce a web based app (under Linux) with MySQL as the database.
Consensus seems to be use something like PHP would give everything required.
There needs to be enough 'power' to interact with other systems (wether it been for accounts on a windows platform or hand held devices things like that) -- though I can guess we can write C code (and libs) to include in.
My friend has been doing some develoopment for a while now using Ruby/Rails and he thinks it's great.
Our company would have to bring in additional resource so I'd be worried about us finding someone to do Ruby/Rails rather than PHP/Web Coder.
I'm just looking for any advice or experiences on what platforms / languages people have used. Looking towards Linux as our existing application is a Unix application and it would in theory be much easier to interact in terms of data (as we can write native code for our legacy app).
Cheers