Hi Cecil

>My boss, who is our plant manager and VP has asked me to start getting some people in to make proposals on (re-)developing our web site. He asked me to take it off-line, in a sense, today, so that we show that the web site is under construciton.
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>Now, I just found out that the web server is a linux box, so I wonder if this might prevent us from using either Visual FoxPro with WebConnection or Macromedia's ColdFusion on it.
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>Our web site had the usual stuff, Contact Information, a little story about our company, a whole bunch of wire products listed and some other things. I have not yet defined our requirements, so I am in the process of doing this now (okay, I'll start next Monday). If you are interested in doing development for our web site, I would invite you to send me an email to at least establish contact.
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>As I say, I need to establish what it is we want to do first, but I will need to be collecting developers' contact information and what your expertise is, then we will soon proceed thereafter. I am not sure if it is okay to put this type of email up, but I have done it nevertheless.
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>Our company mnaufactures steel wire. Some of the wire is used to make shopping carts, nails, fabric panels for concrete reinforcement, fabric panels to reinforce caves in mines, strand wire to hold up cables on telephone poles, etc.
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>We use Visual FoxPro 9.0 here. I personally like WebConnect and ColdFusion, although I am studying C#.NET. The box we have the current web site on is a Linux box; the administrator prefers that we keep this on a Linux box. I am not sure how to do that with the previously mentioned development tools.

If you're not committed to linux, consider DotNetNuke. It is driven by SQL Server. If you have a VFP application you can easily interface it with the DotNetNuke modules. You can use DNN as the corporate internet and the corporate intranet simultaneously! Employees login and are given access to employee specific modules. Non-employees either don't login at all or login and get non-employee specific modules.

You get all the source code and new modules are available inexpensively and often with source code.