Re: Preferred connection technology for Linux/Win32 apps?

From: Brian Peasland <dba_at_nospam.peasland.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:38:15 GMT
Message-ID: <J2Awzr.Kvu@igsrsparc2.er.usgs.gov>

Michael Ray wrote:
> I've been thinking of switching over to learning Linux and developing
> apps using a language that will run on both platforms. Currently, I've
> only done VB6 apps using OO40. Since that is OLE-based, I'd guess that
> won't work on Linux very well. :) So am I stuck using ODBC or is there a
> better method? I suppose I could also just check the platform within the
> code and use OO4O if it's Win32. What is the equivalent on Linux?
>

Sounds like you'll be looking at Java, which uses JDBC to connect to the database. Many have successfully implemented apps that are written in Java that run on a variety of platforms.

HTH,
Brian

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