On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, [ISO-8859-15] Sven K�hler wrote: > It's a bit OT but you just said .NET was "invented" my Microsoft,
No I said it was a crackpot idea that microsoft had. > you didn't tell anything what you expect for Mono's future. I think they are going to have a lot of fun with it, but that they will abandon it a couple of years after microsoft abandons their .NET ideas. > > Then maybe he shouldn't use .NET? > > What an arrogant position. What's arrogant about "A is crap, make it better", "well maybe you should not use A, because there are B and C that are better". Supporting .NET is a sure way to hand control of the future of your project to microsoft. With Java you at least have several vendors to choose from if Sun turns out to be complete nutters, with .NET you are just screwed when microsoft descides that .TV is going to be the next big thing. > Would you use the JDBC-ODBC bridge? Why not? Were the people writing the bridge incompetent? > i guess no. You guessed wrong, I'd use it and if it didn't work I'd fix it. > You would expect a good JDBC driver and fortunately we have such 100% > Java driver for SAPDB. Why is that good? (well except for portability) > Without it, i wouldn't have chosen SAPDB for my work, since a bridges > are often faulty and unreliable. Why is that? Why should a bridge be more unreliable than a much larger piece of newly developed code? > Well, we can't influence the ODBC API itself, just solve bugs within > SAPDB's ODBC driver. In addition you'll have to fight with the birdge's > bugs. Ah so what you are saying is that SAP DB has a buggy client lib and that you'd like to get an improved one? > > I've heard mumblings of a new, modern ODBC interface being written for SAP > > DB, so maybe that's the answer; wait a while and see if a better driver > > should pop up. > > What the hell is a "modern ODBC interface" ? One younger than me. > Will the SAPDB ODBC driver support a higher version of ODBC? Dunno, but there were talk about a completely new client lib at some point, the current ODBC interface is grafted ontop of the old client interface and unfortunatly *that* part isn't quite stable. _______________________________________________ sapdb.general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.sap.com/mailman/listinfo/sapdb.general
