> Many Allaire customers have used SequeLink to talk to data sources on
> Windows. It basically is a 'universal' ODBC driver, which talks to a
> Merant server on the Windows machine. This server has access to all the
> data source on the Windows server, using ODBC, OLEDB, etc. The request
> is performed and the results passed back to the SQL-Link ODBC driver on
> the Unix platform.
This is pretty slow though because it is a bridge. The TDS driver at
http://libary.freeodbc.org natively talks to the MS SQL server.
Nothing extra needs to be installed on the NT machine at all.
It is quick and has been found to be more stable than the Merant
drivers. On top of that, it is free and not $4000 like the Merant
stuff.
There is also an open source project in sourceforge that is working
on making the MS Access MDB format readable. Another group is
working on an ODBC driver for that that will work on unix. Big
advantage here is it won't leak memory and will be multithreaded
unlike MS's own Access drivers.
Russ Cobbe
President, Inline Internet Systems, Inc.
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P: (905) 712 3841 F: (905) 712 2965
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