Microsoft Access in Linux

[Anon]

Hi, I'm desperate for advice;

One of my client decided to migrate his existing ASPs from NT to linux. He is currently using Microsoft Access 97 as the database.

From the white papers I see that I need to use a remote driver to access Access db on NT platform, is there anyway I can place the Access db to run on linux server?

[Anon]

No. Microsoft deliberately decided not to allow Access to run on linux 🙂

If the database is not complex, consider using MySQL.

Also, you can't (as far as I know) use ASPs directly from linux either. Consider using the tool ASP2PHP to convert your scripts to PHP. Unfortunately, I have had mixed results with this tool, especially when converting badly-written ASP.

Summary: You should tell your client that it is not a trivial matter to migrate from one platform to another.

[Anon]

You can use ASP with Chilisoft's Linux server.