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

Any surprise they can't get their share price to break ten bucks?

Brian Jay Gould wrote:

> 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 Wed Apr 21 1999 - 00:00:00 CEST