Re: ODBC client on DEC UNIX

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 Received on Fri Jul 10 1998 - 02:10:14 CDT