Andre Heider wrote:

..>>And there is always the browser based option, and go with PHP. There
are

>>a number of shells that already have most of what you need ;)
>>

.> if there're webapplications in the game i would say go definitely
with asp.net.

> the standard assemblies work on both platforms (windows/iis/.net
> linux/apache/mono) including firebird-net-provider. developing such an
> webapplication is just a relief compared to the old fashinoned scripting
> language way.

Why bother, PHP has a native Firebird interface, not need for another
interface layer ;) And it works transparently between all versions of
Linux and Windows.

> about the gui thing with multiplatform in mind:
> python is very nice, but i would prefer .net/mono over java. winforms are'nt
> fully implemented in mono yet, but since you mentioned gtk you should try
> gtk-sharp/glade.

And you can compile PHP if you need a faster package.

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