That's it, Thank you Andrew, I knew I had it somewhere.
Michael, this is where you want to go, Andrew hit the nail right on the
head!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Yoshi Melrose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting
> Yoshi,
>
> Regardless if you use a commercial or free driver, the only thing you need
> to compile with is iODBC, as a Driver Manager. You can then drop in any
> ODBC-compliant driver fairly seamlessly. A Howto is available at
> www.iodbc.org, but it's mostly a matter of getting the iODBC SDK and
> compiling --with-iodbc.
>
> Also, while our drivers are not Open Source, they are free for low-use
> environments (2 concurrent database connections).
>
> Please let me know if I may assist in any way.
>
> Best regards,
> Andrew
> ---------------------------------------
> Andrew Hill - OpenLink Software
> Director Technology Evangelism
> eBusiness Infrastructure Technology
> http://www.openlinksw.com
>
>
> On 3/19/01 11:54 AM, "Michael Kimsal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > 55 projects found for query 'odbc'
> >
> > Most of these are simply projects that have the word ODBC
> > in their description someplace. There seem to be only a handful
> > of libraries, and some (openlink/easysoft) are commercial
> > offerings.
> >
> > I still have not come across any ODBC driver that I can get
> > a binary or source for, which is free, that I can compile under
> > Linux to talk ODBC to databases.
> >
> > What am I missing? I don't think I'm missing anything. I don't think
> > any are out there - freetds was going to be working on something,
> > I thought, but apparently that got delayed/shelved.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yoshi Melrose wrote:
> >
> >> have you tried out http://freshmeat.net ? do a search for odbc, you'll
find
> >> a few. :)
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Michael Kimsal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 9:01 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [PHP] MS SQL databse connecting
> >>
> >>> Am I the only one who can not find any free ODBC drivers for Linux?
> >>> I see countless references to ODBC driver managers, but no ODBC
drivers
> >>> themselves - not free ones anyway.
> >>>
> >
>
>
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