From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 13 8:43:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.class.com (mail.class.com [207.91.36.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CDC137C205 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 08:43:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jameso@class.com) Received: from jim.class.com (unknown [192.168.1.144]) by mail.class.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51E0B59202 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 10:43:39 -0500 (CDT) Received: by jim.class.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BE167B449B; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 10:43:12 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 10:43:12 -0500 From: Jim To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How does Yahoo talk to their database? Message-ID: <20000713104312.B8008@elwood.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i X-Whaa: You read headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a quick question for the Yahoo! people, or anyone else who may happen to know. I was wonder how does Yahoo! have its front end web servers (running FreeBSD) talk to their backend database? The way I understand it (and I could be wrong), most of Yahoo!'s webservers are running modified FreeBSD-4.0, and their backend database is Oracle. (At lease our Oracle reps are telling us Yahoo! uses Oracle for its database.) Because of the lack of native client libs for FreeBSD, I was wondering how this is being done. ODBC? Middleware? Something that Yahoo! wrote them self? Thanks. -- Jim O'Gorman | It is not enough to succeed. Others BSD Admin | must fail. -- Gore Vidal ---- | jameso@elwood.net | jameso@class.com | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message