Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 14:29:26 -0500 From: "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com> To: 'Alexander Goller' <alex@vivien.franken.de>, "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com> Cc: "'advocacy@freebsd.org'" <advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Help me turn the enterprise to FreeBSD! Message-ID: <576A688A7DA7D011899B00805FEA1AFFCCEB8D@sych02.isdip.upmc.edu>
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Thanks. I didn't find these drivers in my search. I'll try these out. > -----Original Message----- > From: Alexander Goller [SMTP:alex@vivien.franken.de] > Sent: March 06, 2000 2:11 PM > To: Person, Roderick > Cc: 'advocacy@freebsd.org' > Subject: Re: Help me turn the enterprise to FreeBSD! > > Hi, > > On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 01:45:15PM -0500, Person, Roderick 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. > > There is a iODBC driver which does ODBC from OpenLink Software, that > works on nearly all UNIX platforms, including FreeBSD. If you do Web > Applications i know of Perl and DBD::ODBC and PHP3 to use that ODBC > driver. From the perl side it seems that SQL Server 7 is known to > work with the latest release. > Take a look at http://www.openlinksw.com/. > > bye, alex > -- > Alexander 'decay' Goller e-mail: alex@vivien.franken.de > decay on ircnet > pgp - 2048/09314EBD > pgp - 98 A8 0A DD 4B 8E 92 52 05 D0 CA 8E D7 87 B3 B3 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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