On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 16:50 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote:
Hi All;
We're preparing to embark on a new development project. It will eventually be released dual projects similar to Red Hat with a commercially supported side and a leading edge open source side.
The project will pull data from a database and present info to users. We'll need a graph/chart component and a way to generate html, PDF and spreadsheet reports/downloads. It will be a web based interface.
Questions:
- I'm thinking we'll write the initial commercial (closed source) code in C.
Anyone have any thoughts/alternative suggestions ?
anyone know of a good source of C library routines (something like CPAN) ?
Any thoughts on the methods to generate XML via C ?
Any suggestions per the generation of the PDF, HTML, etc reports on screen
and for download ? maybe php within the web front end? a set of C routines to be called based on basic report parameters? others ?
Thanks in advance for your feedback...
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of course, if you want to do all sorts of disparate programming like C and PHP, etc. knock your socks off.
Craig