Talking about 'free' stuff, just watch out with those 'Open Source Licenses'. They are NOT all created equal (GPL, BSD, APSL, AL, NPL, and others). Some are truely more 'open' than you might like! Just remember to read the fine print on those licenses.

- A Hilton


>>>Hi all ,
>>> This few days I have faced to a serious problem.
>>> My customer want to change the server from NT to Linux .
>>> As you know ,there is no problem that using NT with Foxpro.
>>> But ,is that any way to get data from linux server using FP ?
>>> Is it need to write the backend program in C++ ?
>>> Thanx for advance !
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>>I think you should go for it. Linux is the next big thing happening in OS'es.
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>>There are already two full fledged magazines on Linux and hundreds of sites.
>>Checkout www.redhat.com, www.caldera.com or www.suse.com. You do need to to use SAMBA which is included with all distributions to connect to Windows.
>>Basically you can have Linux act as the file server (just like Novell Netware used to be). There are also some free offerings for client server such as Oracle and Sybase.
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>>Costas
>Free offerings from Oracle and Sybase? I'd like to see that! Do you have a URL where I can check these out?