So why isn't native JDBC access to ASE free?

We are converting to Oracle (because of this), so it isn't a big deal anymore. But I am curious as to why Sybase would demand $2,000 per ASE server (on Solaris) if there are any Java clients. Don't suggest the JDBC-ODBC bridge, there are lots of bugs and it doesn't provide platform independence. Native JDBC comes free with virtually every other RDBMS.

Until this, I was a strong Sybase advocate with over 10 years of Sybase development. So what bone-head at Sybase made this decision? And who at Sybase is telling their employees that no one writes real applications in Java (that is what we were told when we complained)?

BTW: Before we made the final decision to use Oracle, I posted something about this before. Two emails from Sybase said they'd get back to me. No one ever did, just as no one from Sybase returned my phone calls on the matter. Received on Sun Apr 18 1999 - 00:00:00 CEST