Alex, 

A "personal" version of IIS (Microsoft's web server) comes with XP "Pro"
(read: not the "Home" edition).

You can also download a copy of SQL Server Desktop from MS at:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=413744d1-a0bc-479f-
bafa-e4b278eb9147&displaylang=en. You could also just use something like MS
Access over ODBC. Regardless; setting up a SQL DB is pretty simple using
Enterprise Manager.

At that point you can pretty much develop in anything you want. If you want
to do ASP.NET there is a free RD IDE avail at: http://www.asp.net

Hope this helps,

Steve W

-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of
John J. McDonough
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 3:12 PM
To: piclist@mit.edu
Subject: Re: [PIC] Simple Bug Tracking Software


Alex Parkinson said:

> with only one programmer/tester, and I don't want to have to set up a
> server  or database, or anything like that.  Does anyone know of anyone
> good programs to suit my  needs?

Pretty much anything beyond Excel is going to require you to set up a
database, and most likely communicate with a web server.  Microsoft used
to have a thing called Personal Web Server, and I think it may have become
a part of XP, but I haven't pursued it. But most of these open source
things expect Perl or PHP plus MySQL.  Setting all that up on Windows
could be a pain, and I don't even know if it's possible with PWS.  IIS is
big bucks and while Apache can be set up on Windows, but it's pretty
alien, and might be easier on Linux.

Although I use XP for my client side stuff, I find it invaluable to have a
Linux box on the net with Apache and MySQL for just this kind of thing.

--McD



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