>>>>> "Rick" == Rick Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> We have Empress RDBMS installed, which is lovely and runs on Linux as
> well as other Unix flavors. They supply an ODBC server which listens to
> connections from ODBC drivers which they also supply. But there is no
> native Java support. So if we had a JDBC-ODBC bridge on Linux, we could
> connect to the Empress ODBC server using JDBC.
> Empress even gives this as their Java solution, so I didn't think to
> question it until I realized that Blackdown's 1.1.6 jdk linux port
> doesn't come with the bridge.
> Which is a drag.
Nobody should be using the JDBC-ODBC bridge for anything. It was a hack to
get people to play with JDBC while the vendors/etc. could write real JDBC
drivers for the various DBs.
So, I suggest that you:
* Beat on Empress to make a JDBC driver (or contract someone
to write it for them :-).
* Or, if you want a free DB which has a free JDBC driver you
may want to check out the usual suspects (PostgresSQL, mSql,
mySql, etc.).
* Or, if you want a commercial DB with a JDBC driver, check
out Solid DB. They also still seem to have some special
deal for Linux users (but I don't recall if that includes
the JDBC driver or just the DB itself).
Hope this helps,
John
