Re: [cobalt-developers] FrontPage and Database problems

["Paul Adamson" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Arn't frontpage extentions designed to use Access or MS-SQL database
sources?

If so, thats why it no go on Linux.

Paul Adamson
interStaQ


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Rahill" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] FrontPage and Database problems


>
> >Nope, I get a phone call from the client, saying that the Database
> >components are not working in FrontPage. (Should be Insert menu, and
> >Database) but the Database portion is greyed out.
> >So I hop on a PC that I have here, and verify.  Connect to local web
> >server... Insert - Database components show up.
>
> AFAIK, the database functions in the FrontPage Extensions that are needed
> are not included with Unix/Linux versions of the extensions.
>
> I think your only choices are:
> 1. Tell him to find another provider who has Windows boxes.
> 2. Tell him Frontpages stinks as an authoring tool and to upgrade/switch
to
> Dreamweaver UltraDev if he want to do design and databases. (my $0.02)
>
> Brian
>
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