From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Mar 6 11:12:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from 1upmc-msx4.isdip.upmc.edu (1upmc-msx4.isdbu.upmc.edu [128.147.18.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA7B37C237 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 11:12:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from personrp@ccbh.com) Received: by 1upmc-msx4.isdbu.upmc.edu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.10) id ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 14:12:01 -0500 Message-ID: <576A688A7DA7D011899B00805FEA1AFFCCEB8B@sych02.isdip.upmc.edu> From: "Person, Roderick" To: 'Alfred Perlstein' Cc: "'advocacy@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Help me turn the enterprise to FreeBSD! Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 14:12:09 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.10) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG not mysql. Microsoft's SQL Server > -----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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message