Would FreeTDS (FreeTDS.org) work for you?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Rueschhoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 11:18 AM
Subject: RE: JDBC Driver for sql server 2000
> MS is not interesting in providing ANY support for JAVA now - you will not
> get nice JDBC drivers from Microsoft Microsoft considers JAVA a direct
> competitor for it's .net and C# efforts.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stéphane De Jonghe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 9:50 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: JDBC Driver for sql server 2000
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> Because when you paid a lot for a database, you don't want to pay more
> for a 3rd party specific jdbc driver when you expect one in the package
> you paid for...
> But we know all how it goes with MS :=(
>
> Stef
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Weissenbacher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 6:40 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: JDBC Driver for sql server 2000
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> M$ SQLServer costs lots of $$$ so why bother with a free JDBC driver ;)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stéphane De Jonghe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 6:35 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: JDBC Driver for sql server 2000
>
>
> Hi,
>
> But is there any free (or open source) JDBC driver for MS SQL Server who
> is not using the jdbc:odbc link ?
> I tried JSQLConnect, but it is a trial version...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stef
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>
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