From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Mar 6 11:19:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C98537BC7F for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 11:19:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA29970; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 11:50:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 11:50:41 -0800 From: "'Alfred Perlstein'" To: "Person, Roderick" Cc: "'advocacy@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Help me turn the enterprise to FreeBSD! Message-ID: <20000306115041.Y14279@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <576A688A7DA7D011899B00805FEA1AFFCCEB8B@sych02.isdip.upmc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <576A688A7DA7D011899B00805FEA1AFFCCEB8B@sych02.isdip.upmc.edu>; from personrp@ccbh.com on Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 02:12:09PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Person, Roderick [000306 11:43] wrote: > not mysql. Microsoft's SQL Server ugh, that's what I get for answering email just after waking up. Anyhow, what are the Linux packages you guys are able to use? -Alfred > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Alfred Perlstein [SMTP:bright@wintelcom.net] > > Sent: March 06, 2000 2:38 PM > > To: Person, Roderick > > Cc: 'advocacy@freebsd.org' > > Subject: Re: Help me turn the enterprise to FreeBSD! > > > > * Person, Roderick [000306 11:17] wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > > > > I need you help I work for a small enterprise client/server company. I'm > > > looking for a client that will allow me to connect to a MS Sql server > > from a > > > FreeBSD front end. Any one know of anything. I have found clients to > > connect > > > to other type such as Oracle and Sysbase. Right now we have one FreeBSD > > > server that I forced in here and use for testing but there is > > consideration > > > for getting some Linux servers and Workstations, but I'm trying to sway > > the > > > vote to FreeBSD any ideas or am I going to have to write something. > > > > ~ % ls -l /usr/ports/databases/ | grep -i mysql > > drwxr-xr-x 6 bright wheel 512 Nov 16 20:28 dbf2mysql > > drwxr-xr-x 5 bright wheel 512 Nov 16 20:28 gmysql > > drwxr-xr-x 5 bright wheel 512 Feb 27 16:12 mysql-jdbc-mm > > drwxr-xr-x 3 bright wheel 512 Mar 4 23:25 mysql322-client > > drwxr-xr-x 6 bright wheel 512 Mar 4 23:25 mysql322-server > > drwxr-xr-x 5 bright wheel 512 Feb 18 08:00 p5-Mysql > > drwxr-xr-x 6 bright wheel 512 Jan 18 08:55 py-MySQL > > drwxr-xr-x 6 bright wheel 512 Jan 27 05:57 tcl-Mysql > > drwxr-xr-x 6 bright wheel 512 Feb 22 06:21 xmysql > > drwxr-xr-x 6 bright wheel 512 Feb 22 06:21 xmysqladmin > > > > there's even a few web form packages for accessing mysql from FreeBSD. > > > > -Alfred -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message