Whups, sorry - looks like that should have been addressed to Michael.
Best regards,
Andrew
On 3/19/01 12:13 PM, "Andrew Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yoshi,
>
> Regardless if you use a commercial or free driver, the only thing you need to
> compile with is iODBC, as a Driver Manager. You can then drop in any
> ODBC-compliant driver fairly seamlessly. A Howto is available at
> www.iodbc.org, but it's mostly a matter of getting the iODBC SDK and compiling
> --with-iodbc.
>
> Also, while our drivers are not Open Source, they are free for low-use
> environments (2 concurrent database connections).
>
> Please let me know if I may assist in any way.
>
> Best regards,
> Andrew
> ---------------------------------------
> Andrew Hill - OpenLink Software
> Director Technology Evangelism
> eBusiness Infrastructure Technology
> http://www.openlinksw.com
>
>
> On 3/19/01 11:54 AM, "Michael Kimsal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> 55 projects found for query 'odbc'
>>
>> Most of these are simply projects that have the word ODBC
>> in their description someplace. There seem to be only a handful
>> of libraries, and some (openlink/easysoft) are commercial
>> offerings.
>>
>> I still have not come across any ODBC driver that I can get
>> a binary or source for, which is free, that I can compile under
>> Linux to talk ODBC to databases.
>>
>> What am I missing? I don't think I'm missing anything. I don't think
>> any are out there - freetds was going to be working on something,
>> I thought, but apparently that got delayed/shelved.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Yoshi Melrose wrote:
>>
>>> have you tried out http://freshmeat.net ? do a search for odbc, you'll find
>>> a few. :)
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Michael Kimsal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 9:01 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting
>>>
>>>> Am I the only one who can not find any free ODBC drivers for Linux?
>>>> I see countless references to ODBC driver managers, but no ODBC drivers
>>>> themselves - not free ones anyway.
>>>>
>>
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