Re: ODBC platform availability?

markb_at_sipl4330a (Mark Bernstein) wrote:

>We're looking into the use of ODBC as an underpinning for custom
>programs to access a database. Trouble is, the customer isn't
>using Windows as their client platform. They're using Solaris
>2.3, same as the server platform. (This customer's database
>is using Oracle 7.1.4.)
 

>I called Oracle tech support, asked about the availability of
>ODBC interface libraries for Solaris, and was told that it
>was not available, and that ODBC drivers were only available
>for Windows and RDB (VMS). But I thought I saw at least one
>posting here a little while back saying that Oracle did have
>ODBC available on Unix.
 

>If such a library exists, could someone help point me in the
>right direction, so I can find and order it? My newsfeed is
>inconsistent, so I'd appreciate it if you could respond by
>email in addition to or instead of posting.
 

>Thanks,
>--
>Mark Bernstein
>markb_at_erim.org

A company called Visigenic Software is developing ODBC drivers for various Unix platforms. There's an article in the June, '95 issue of DBMS magazine. Received on Fri Jul 21 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST