How to choose client/server technologies?

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I am developing a medium-sized .NET WPF Windows client application that will need to share a rather small amount of data with other users (via a few queries on the server). What are good options for what technologies to use to write the client & server components I use hostmonster.com which gives me an 64-bit x86 Linux account + Apache, PHP, etc. While SQL is probably the obvious data store choice, the data is in a simple enough form that it could almost as easily be a few binary files. Years ago COM gave me enough grief that I would love to have a victory over that monster, but I am not sure if that is an option on the server end because of the system being Linux

I realize that there are probably many combinations that will work. I would prefer Microsoft solutions, but the server being Linux makes some options impossible. I would like my choices to be proven to be good in a few years (i.e., still popular/supported). Whatever I choose, I will have to learn, since I do not know any of them. Do I need to specify additional info about my needs to narrow it down?

I know C, C++, C#, HTML, XML, XAML, Windows, user & script level Linux, a little SQL & COM.

Posted 6-Nov-10 8:16am

GregJ7

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Rod Kemp · Answer 1 · 2010-11-07T16:41:00

To access the data create a PHP Web Service[^] on the Linux web server with a MySql backend and have your .Net application access the web service to get the data.
What methods the Web Service exposes will be dependant on your data and how you need to interact with it, but don't send SQL strings.