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From: Alex Kac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 16:15:00 -0500
To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Database question
It looks like its iODBC. Looking in “about”, I see iodbc-config /usr/bin/iodc-config and all the libs say “libiodbc*”.
And that’s what came with Jag.
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From: Robert Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 11:04:41 -0700
To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Database question
One of PrimeBase’s strengths is its many connection methods provided. They do have JDBC for every platform. As far as ODBC, that was my decision as to which OS X ODBC manager primebase should support. They told me they would rewrite their ODBC driver for one of the managers. I chose iODBC 3.5 because it seemed to be the easiest to use, openlinksw was behind it in a big way, witango supported it, it was free. This current ODBC driver for OS X from primebase is available at my site, http://www.theradmac.com/tools/primebase.tml . Once jaguar is out, and we checkout the ODBC, and if Witango supports it, I am sure primebase will support it.
Based on the past, Apple is probably using one of the opensource ODBC frameworks for OS X like unixODBC or iODBC. Do you know which one?
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BigHead Technology
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From: Alex Kac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 09:39:50 -0500
To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Database question
Jaguar comes with ODBC built in. Does anybody know if PrimeBase or the others work with that? What about JDBC support?
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From: Jose Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 10:06:48 -0400
To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Database question
The 3 “Cheep” database solutions for MAC OS X are, Openbase, Primebase, and Frontbase. All three have that one thing that make them very different from the others. Openbase has a wonderful DBA Gui app. Primebase is very fast and multi platform. Frontbase has some really cool Applescript hooks. There have been some problems with the Openbase odbc drivers and I do not know when Frontbase will support ODBC on Mac OS X. All of the address are http://www.####base.com.
You might also want to try, although I have not, Postgres SQL. I believe it supports iODBC. I do know it is being used with Gnu Grass. Grass is a free GIS software that has a database engine that is used for imaging.
Jose
on 8/2/2002 9:03 AM, Alex Kac at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here’s a more on-topic question for here....
We’re a Win2k shop looking to move to OS X Server 10.2 on XServe. Currently we’re running SQL Server 2k – but frankly, part of my goal is to get rid of all MS software for our servers. There are quite a few reasons for this, but I won’t elaborate.
Now, my budget is already going to go down the tubes with the XServes...and possibly WiTango (price still matters, and I’ll say that a large part of my reluctance to embrace paying $$$ for WiTango 5 is the price and my viewpoint that yes, its just an SP2 derivative). But you don’t want to skimp on the database. So...I may just keep one of our servers for SQL Server – but what low cost or freeware databases do you suggest? MySQL is what many people seem to use, but from my reading – not experience mind you – its not a “real” database. Yet large sites like SlashDot and others run off it just fine.
I’m not looking for a database war here, I’m not looking for support options – I’m just asking from what you currently run or have run in the past – what do you recommend?
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