Re: 8.1.6 on windows 2000, no odbc?

From: Colum Mylod <cmylod-deleteme_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:19:08 +0100
Message-ID: <t257otkd9kepubo0h1oi6885sghee1dv91@4ax.com>

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 08:03:23 +0200, "Billy Verreynne" <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za> wrote:

>My Problems with ODBC.
>A Trilogy In One Part.

[very good stuff snipped]
>The next question that people need to ask is WHY do they want to use ODBC. The
>answers are usually pretty much numbers 1 and 2 I gave above. However, it is
>often UNTRUE.

More often than not, the reason I see for using ODBC is that the suppliers of certain s/w chose it to reduce their development overhead|costs|experience|bottom line. Fewer teams, wider DB support (looks good on the OHP slides, sorry, ppt slides), one size fits all.

Performance takes a hit, quirky bugs show up, but you sail pas the most crucial stage: selling the stuff into the site in the fist place.

But there' no reason for an Oracle shop to build their apps using ODBC.
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