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Date:      Mon, 6 Mar 2000 20:11:25 +0100
From:      Alexander Goller <alex@vivien.franken.de>
To:        "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com>
Cc:        "'advocacy@freebsd.org'" <advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Help me turn the enterprise to FreeBSD!
Message-ID:  <20000306201125.H78613@vivien.franken.de>
In-Reply-To: <576A688A7DA7D011899B00805FEA1AFFCCEB8A@sych02.isdip.upmc.edu>; from personrp@ccbh.com on Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 01:45:15PM -0500
References:  <576A688A7DA7D011899B00805FEA1AFFCCEB8A@sych02.isdip.upmc.edu>

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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
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