From: Milind Basole
To: ask_tim@oreilly.com
Subject: Webboard for Unix
Tim:
Do you guys have any plans of porting WebBoard to Unix platforms? I realize it has Access/SQL at the backend. Can WebBoard be tied to a commercial database like Oracle or even shareware like mySQL?
Something like that would be a really neat feature.
Thanks
Milind Basole
Lisa Henning, our WebBoard product manager, will answer this one:
Hi Milind,
My name is Lisa Henning, I am the WebBoard Product Manager at O'Reilly and Associates. Thank you for taking the time to provide us feedback at the "Ask Tim!" section of the O'Reilly homepage.
You had asked a couple of questions and I wanted to respond to your inquires.
We do not have plans to port WebBoard to a Unix platform. However, with the release of WebBoard 3.0 on April 20th, we have noticed an interest in an Unix version of the software, so we'll certainly keep that in the back of our minds.
You also asked if WebBoard can be tied to a commercial database like Oracle or even shareware like mySQL?
It is our plans to expand our Access and SQL database server support to additional databases in future releases of WebBoard. Most likely the next database we will provide support for will be Oracle.
Thank you again for your feedback and inquires,
Lisa Henning
WebBoard Product Manager
