I have to develop a website for our company that will connect to a Progress database and I'm just starting my investigation on the best route to connect the webserver to the Progress dataserver/database, running on TRU64 Unix. I would like to use a Win2k server with IIS and ASP because that's what I'm most familiar with.
It looks like my two options thus far are: Use a third party ODBC driver from someone like Merant and use ASP to connect from my Win32 webserver as I normally would to any other database.
ANother option looks like (although not neccesarily ASP-friendly) that I can use webspeed.
My question is: What are pros/cons of using one method over another? Is one more scalable than the other? Am I going to give up some performance or speed by going with ODBC and SQL-92? will I be able to access any 4 GL code when I'm using ODBC? Is webspeed going to cost considerably more?
Any feedback from someone with experience in this area would be much appreciated!
It looks like my two options thus far are: Use a third party ODBC driver from someone like Merant and use ASP to connect from my Win32 webserver as I normally would to any other database.
ANother option looks like (although not neccesarily ASP-friendly) that I can use webspeed.
My question is: What are pros/cons of using one method over another? Is one more scalable than the other? Am I going to give up some performance or speed by going with ODBC and SQL-92? will I be able to access any 4 GL code when I'm using ODBC? Is webspeed going to cost considerably more?
Any feedback from someone with experience in this area would be much appreciated!