on 3/11/02 9:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] purportedly said: > That's pretty bad. The Mac does have some sort of ODBC from > Merant. Though when I tried to even connect to an Oracle > server (which works from UNIX and Win), from the ODBC drivers > I was out of luck. I don't know if Merant even cares. :-(
AFAIK, the Merant drivers are no longer maintained or supported for the Mac platform. No surprise there. > I guess someone would have to port the FreeTDS stuff to the > Mac for Syb/MS-SQL access. And Oracle apparently maintains > Oracle interface on the Mac, but I don't know how to get it. > Of course there's FileMaker, but that'll be sloooooooooow. > Lastly there's OpenLink. The issue isn't ODBC, per se. ODBC is just a layer on top of an actual database driver. But it doesn't help any if you don't have the drivers. There are ports of MySQL and Postgres to the Mac, but as far as I know they only work under RealBasic, and the MySQL port costs real money (no freeware there). I agree that is sucks to not have drivers for common databases (there are, actually, a few that have Mac drivers such as FrontBase), and now that Mac OS X is out I don't think there will be any motivation to do so. I guess when OS X becomes the de facto Mac standard, all of these issues will go away. Keary Suska Esoteritech, Inc. "Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"
