From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 16:35:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from babylon.chem.psu.edu (babylon.chem.psu.edu [146.186.189.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D05F937B400 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 16:35:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mentat.chem.psu.edu [128.118.172.82] by babylon.chem.psu.edu with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.06) id A5B675C000F8; Wed, 29 May 2002 19:35:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 19:35:40 -0400 Subject: Re: DB2 on FreeBSD?? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v481) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" From: Lance M.Westerhoff In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.481) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Actually, Mac OS X is the big reason why I want to try FreeBSD out. I have always been a Mac person, but I have always been a UNIX (IRIX, AIX, Linux) person as well. I didn't really know what FreeBSD was about until I started getting into OS X back in the DP4 days. More recently, I wrote a column on a Mac site comparing the different BSDs...the research I did for that column made me much more seriously consider FreeBSD for all of our x86 systems. Here is the link if you would like to take a look: http://www.applelust.com/alust/terminal/archives/terminal041202.shtml -Lance On Wednesday, May 29, 2002, at 03:24 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > off list > > On Wednesday, May 29, 2002, at 03:17 , Lance M.Westerhoff wrote: > >> >> >> I've took a look at them about a year ago and I was impressed then too >> (they also have native support for my primary OS: Mac OS X/Darwin). >> I would wonder about their OO support as well. Do you know if Qt >> drivers exist yet for FrontBase? Our client package uses Qt, and >> whatever database solution we go with, we would need to be able to >> build a DB driver for Qt (which I haven't done anything with yet, so >> it may be very straight forward). >> >> > > hi Lance. > > Cool, another OS X user. I don't know about the Qt drivers. I'd > contact them and ask them your questions. I use it with WebObjects and > through WebObjects they have good OO support, but that is because of > EOF. Anyway, the support a lot of stuff and probably can give you > better insight. They have a developer mail list you can send such > questions too and you will get quick responses... > > best > Chad > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message