[ale] Microsoft Access Database - PHP on Linux

[jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu (Jonathan Glass)]

Anyone have any experience getting access (no pun) to Microsoft Access
databases from Linux/Apache/PHP?  I looked at unixODBC, but it requires
another product from easysoft, and basically a dedicated machine to
"server" the ODBC connection.  I'm trying REALLY hard to avoid
installing a M$ Server, so any thoughts are appreciated.

Anyone ever moved the backend of a complicated Access DB to something
like Postgre or MySQL?  Since the DB is simple tables, and all the work
is in the reports and forms, I THINK I should be able to move the actual
data into Postgres or MySQL, and setup the ODBC links on the win2k
clients to point to the appropriate server/database combo.
Unfortunately, that entails installing and configuring ODBC drivers on
25 machines...

Any thoughts/comments/gotchas are greatly appreciated.

Thanks
-- 
Jonathan Glass
Systems Support Specialist II
Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience
Georgia Institute of Technology
404.385.0127

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