Re: iACS ODBC Driver on Linux: Segfault in libcwbcore.so

Hello Cesco,

Am 02.07.2025 um 17:10 schrieb cesco via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

My point... I was expecting the obvious path... a full MS stack ... with windows OS and windows drivers under the software.

Well, there are multiple reasons why the choice was to not use Windows:
- Resource consumption
- More complex to administer properly (so I have been told!), also in hindsight to decreased QA for updates provided by Microsoft
- Increasing discrepancy between the needs of Administrators, and direction Microsoft is taking with Windows
- The dev wanting to deploy Containers on Windows, abstracting away Windows from whatever is running in the Container itself, IMHO nullifying the question about Windows in the first place
- License cost

But of course I don't have the details, and being a mailing list, I find good to expand my knowledge if there are technical benefits in a choice compared to a well know beaten path.

A good approach.

i.e. for a pure PHP stack I would pick linux as a "straightforward" decision...

That matches my thinking. But PHP is also dev-perceived as being a technology from the past. :-)

Just leaning back, listening to the excuses and "facts" from him while mentally chewing popcorn. :-)

:wq! PoC