Unusual platforms for PHP (was: Hosting and Bandwidth)

[Allison]

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>Subject: Unusual platforms for PHP (was: Hosting and Bandwidth)
>   From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>
>   Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:47:51 -0800
>     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"	<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
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>At 4:04 PM -0400 3/20/07, Bob Bradlee wrote:
>>Tonights, ASU dinner meeting is about running PHP with webaccess on 
>>the AS400 platform. I look forward to picking
>>some brains on the subject. IBMcollectables.com should not be hosted 
>>on a Compaq Proliant server, even if it is an old
>>almost classic, Dual Slot 1 PII-400's, SCSI RAID, 512 ECC Ram, in a 
>>rackmount case with dual supplies, there is
>>something just wrong about it :-)
>>
>>Just some Food for thought ...
>>Comments are always welcome, sometimes ignored :)
>>
>>Bob Bradlee
>>The Cave Mutterer
>
>I've been running PHP on my OpenVMS server for nearly 3 years now. 
>It can add some interesting capabilities to platforms that wouldn't 
>otherwise be able to perform certain services, at least not without 
>writing new software.
>
>I'd be curious to know which version of PHP is supported on the 
>AS400, and if you have the opportunity to run MySQL (if so what 
>version), as it seems to be required by a lot of the more interesting 
>PHP apps.
>
>On OpenVMS if the version requirements are met for PHP and MySQL you 
>have a fairly good chance of getting things to work without to much 
>effort.
>
>	Zane
>
>
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