<div>Hi All, </div> <div>I am sure a lot of people have already asked this question. </div> <div>There seems to be a lot of confusion in the open source area. Documentations do not clearly demarkate what is in open source and what is not. </div> <div>I am evaluating Map Guide to implement some map based systems. I have successfully installed the Map Guide Open source server and I can see a sample PHP application running as well. </div> <div>What next?</div> <div>Can I connect to a relational database now? </div> <div>There seems to be some ODBC connectivity, but I am not sure how to move forward. </div> <div>1. I need to know how to connect to a sql server database</div> <div>2. put a sample database into ms sql</div> <div>3. make a sample application consume data from ms sql. </div> <div>4. write custom application that can connect to database.</div> <div> </div> <div>I need to understand if 1,2,3 are possible out of box today. Also, what are the tools,
testing frameworks etc to code, debug and run the application. </div> <div>If for 1, 2, 3 I need to write code, I can write it. But need the basic understanding of what all I need to have in order to jump start with coding on these fronts. </div> <div>Need help. Thanks. </div> <div> </div> <div>regards</div><p>
                <hr size=1>New Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman5/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39666/*http://messenger.yahoo.com">Call regular phones from your PC</a> and save big.