In article <35A5BE56.8D293231_at_tde.ra.eunet.de>,
bschultheis_at_tde.ra.eunet.de says...
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> Billy Verreynne schrieb:
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> > Burkhard Schultheis wrote in message <35A1D623.36AC4CAD_at_tde.ra.eunet.de>...
> > >Is there an ODBC library for Oracle on DEC UNIX?
> >
> > ODBC is a Microsoft proprietary standard for the Windows operating system,
> > utilising the Windows architectures and APIs. Once again Microsoft did their
> > own thing and screwed the real open standards for cross platform
> > portability.
> >
> > I seriously doubt that the standard ODBC v3.0 API is portable to Unix
> > without some (major?) changes.
> >
> > Question. Why want an ODBC driver on DEC Unix? Surely there are no real
> > production/commercial software out there that are -ODBC!!- clients on Unix!?
> > Why on earth want to use ODBC on Unix? It's like wanting to run Windows on
> > Unix <shuddering at the thought>.
> >
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> We are developing cross platform with DB2 on AIX, Oracle on DEC, and in the
> future Adabas on Linux and maybe DB2 on NT. Until now we have some applications
> on AIX with DB2 realized with Tcl and ODBC. DB2 comes with ODBC on AIX and
> other clients. Therefore it would be nice to have one Tcl program running on
> many platforms. The combination AIX/DB2/Tcl is working fine! I'm not a friend of
> Microsoft, but ODBC does the job for us.
>
> Regards
> Burkhard
>
>
We use ISG's navigator on our VMS box. I don't know if they have a UNIX
version. I agree with you that sometimes the big boxes have to serve
data to pc's. ODBC is the easiest way.
Liz
Received on Thu Jul 23 1998 - 12:49:13 CDT
