Hi Gary

Thanks for the information about NOLOH. Do you have any experience with the database side of things with this product if so would you care to share some strengths/weaknesses.

Simon


>>It sounds really interesting indeed.
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>It is a very interesting product.
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>>But why using this versus NET, in which you already invested quiet a bit of time, and have been presummably sucessfull ?
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>I am building a SaaS product and using open source technologies, hosting costs are cheaper as I would not be paying to licence Windows server, SQL server and so on.
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>I have never liked ASP.Net. Silverlight is very new and it is a plugin, like Flash (I am not keen on proprietary plug-ins). I really like the idea of the open web, web standards and I think that Ajax has really matured in recent times. There are loads of excellent Javascript libraries and what with the browser vendors constantly trying to out-do each other with fast and faster Javascript execution, the future has never looked better for fat-client/thin-server type JS applications. NOLOH is a tremendous balance of both. Ajax right out of the box without doing anything but balanced usage of server side technology too. Very secure and a really nice development workflow with everything in one language. So, you don't have to worry about HTML, JS, CSS - you just design your application in an object oriented fashion and NOLOH takes care of the rest. Of course you can become more granular and low level if you want but if you haven't too much experience with web technologies, you are insulated from the complexities.
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>I find PHP to be straightforward to use and with the NOLOH OOP approach, you only need to know a little bit of PHP. The OOP structure of NOLOH is not a million miles away from VFP.
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>Well worth checking out.
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>>Why change ?
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>Why not! :)