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PHP for NetWare Beta Released
Twintop writes "Taken from the PHP.net homepage: 'A Beta version of PHP for NetWare is available on the
Novell
Developer Kit site. This version is based on the
4.0.8 (development) version of the PHP source code.' --- Well, even if it is an old version, it's better than nothing for NetWare peeps."
I almost hate to bite on such an obvious troll... but I'd hate to be running anything BUT Netware on anything larger than an 30-pc network. Netware does a fine job of running enterprise-class file and print services. NDS/eDirectory is still THE choice for enterprise directory services, plus it can be hosted off of NT/2K/Linux/Solaris in addition to its native Netware.
I see the point of PHP on Netware as just another option - you can already run Apache & Tomcat on Netware, they are even running the new management pieces of Netware 6. You also already have Perl and Java... and with the licensing model of Netware 6 (user-based, not server- or connection- based as in the past) you can run as many servers as you need. Not really a huge consideration if you have the skills to run Linux, but much cheaper than purchasing 2K or XP + CALs just to run a simple website.
I don't see why you are mentioning BorderManager & port forwarding, though. Yes, perhaps a rabid Novell advocate would refuse to run anything else for the firewall (I am a strong believer in best-of-breed - NT/2K etc do have their place in application hosting) - but why would you need to 'forward port 80' for your linux+apache+php? Unless you think a site can have only one hostname or some such nonsense. I'd use iChain over BorderManager, anyways. I see BorderManager as more of an outbound (forward prox) solution, whereas iChain is targeted more at inbound traffic (reverse proxy).
Their latest products are rather neat - we're just scratching the surface here. If you haven't taken a look *recently*, you really have no idea.
The Crystal Wind is the Storm, and the Storm is Data, and the Data is Life
If you can bite on that then you should go on Fear Factor. Those Madagascar cockroaches wouldn't bother you a bit. :)
I just downloaded PHP for Netware today though I haven't installed it yet. I don't know if I can port my Linux PHP scripts over until they get PostgreSQL running on Netware (which is in the works). But I hope they update PHP to version 4.2x since a lot of the Postgres functions I used are only in the latest versions.
As long as we can access an Oracle database running on another box from the Netware PHP/Web server then this is going to resolve a lot of problems for us.
Well, I'm seeing Netware from a user's point of view. That's what they use at my workplace, and although I'm sure they've got it horribly misconfigured, it's just a big pain in the ass. Now perhaps Netware itself is ok, I honestly don't know a thing about it, but all the Novell apps that run on it seem like pure crap that just exists as a political statement. Especially Groupwise.. unstable, inflexible, won't even talk to our NT servers.. we're just stuck supporting multiple standards that don't want to coexist. Windows talks to linux, linux talks to windows, Novell talks to its shadow while giving everyone else the finger. We're lucky to have a GroupwiseSMTP gateway, otherwise our entire network would be a big black box.
-Billco, Fnarg.com
I hear AFS does a lot of this, though...