In article <MPG.10200908ee341ba1989681_at_news.mci2000.com>,
lizr_at_aol.com (The Perrier Group) wrote:
> In article <35A5BE56.8D293231_at_tde.ra.eunet.de>,
> bschultheis_at_tde.ra.eunet.de says...
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> We use ISG's navigator on our VMS box. I don't know if they have a UNIX
> version. I agree with you that sometimes the big boxes have to serve
> data to pc's. ODBC is the easiest way.
>
> Liz
>
ISG Navigator server can be run on a UNIX box. Please see our web site at
http://www.isgsoft.com or e-mail me for more details.
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