Hybrid server

[Coxylaad]

Hi,
This is probablies going to be a strange question but here goes:

Is it possible to install Microsoft Server 2003 and SQL Server onto Mac server hardware?

Is the architecture totally different?
Or will it just install?

Any help will be appreciated

Thanks

[edesignuk]

You cannot install Microsoft Operating Systems on Mac hardware, period.

[cubist]

Now, you could use Virtual PC, but performance is likely to be poor.

[Coxylaad]

Thanks for the reply people

Thats cleared that one up.

[tiktokfx]

Fortunately, there's no real need to install either.

Plenty of options that'll do the same thing under OS X.

[Coxylaad]

ok then what about if I have a web based development that runs on Microsoft SQL server with Internet Information Services.

I dont want to have to do any sort of porting of the software.

[edesignuk]

You have to convert the Microsoft SQL DB to MySQL (I don't no ***** about SQL, sorry), Mac OS X has the Apache web server built right in. What language have you coded your pages in? This is the only possible problem, if it's .asp then it's tricky. I think you can get software to run asp on apache but it does not have the full functionality of asp on an IIS server.

[Coxylaad]

guess what......its asp.

bugger

[raytube]

Hi,
There actually is a good alternative for working with ASP pages on OS X / Apache, I've never used it as I've made the move over to PHP to make it easier to provide web applications on any platform.

Go to http://www.halcyonsoft.com/products.asp?s=1

The company is Stryon and the product is called iASP. It's supposed to be a lot better than ChilliSoft ASP, check the site out and see for yourself. Let us know how you get on with it if you do check it out.

Cheers,

Rick

[varmit]

http://www.stryon.com/products.asp

I believe these guys have done some work to get asp to run on a Mac Server. Might want to read and check them out first.