Re: ODBC client on DEC UNIX

Hi, Just to try and lay this debate to rest, OpenLink do perfectly serviceable ODBC drivers where the client is unix, compliant to ODBC2 (and compatible with ODBC3). This is the main benefit of a multi-tier architecture, in that you can have as many generic clients on all sorts of OSs out there, all talking to one broker on your server machine, connecting to many different databases.

People out there do use unix as ODBC clients, too - at least one data mining tool comes to mind that runs on Solaris...

Check out http://www.openlinksw.com/ some time, for freely evaluatable ODBC/JDBC drivers.

Regards,

~Tim

In article <6phlhj$sde$1_at_nnrp1.dejanews.com>,   keith_uk_at_my-dejanews.com wrote:
> In article <MPG.10200908ee341ba1989681_at_news.mci2000.com>,
> lizr_at_aol.com (The Perrier Group) wrote:
> > In article <35A5BE56.8D293231_at_tde.ra.eunet.de>,
> > bschultheis_at_tde.ra.eunet.de says...
> > >
> > >
> > > Billy Verreynne schrieb:
> > >
> > > > 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>.
> > > >
> > >
> > > 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
> >
> ISG Navigator server can be run on a UNIX box. Please see our web site at
> http://www.isgsoft.com or e-mail me for more details.

>

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