From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 16 17:59:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA22133 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 May 1996 17:59:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA22115 for ; Thu, 16 May 1996 17:58:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id BAA09271; Fri, 17 May 1996 01:58:07 +0100 (BST) To: Jaye Mathisen cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: A MMAP observation In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 May 1996 16:48:38 PDT." Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 01:58:06 +0100 Message-ID: <9269.832294686@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jaye Mathisen wrote in message ID : > Of course, if somebody would make ODBC clients for FreeBSD so I could let > it talk to my NT SQL server, then I wouldn't have to mess with this at > all. :) I think ``ODBC'' is another mis-nomer from the halls of Microsoft. I don't know anything ``open'' about it. I've certainly never seen any published (and freely available) specs for it (Of course, I will no doubt be corrected by Terry if I'm wrong :-) ). I'm willing to bet that you have to pay Microsoft to get the interface specs. Seems to me to be another attempt by a certain company at the game of ``World Domination''. On the otherhand, SQL is much better known and (at least for unix people) a de-facto standard with servers and clients freely available. Actually, since you have the NT SQL server, can't you just point your SQL client at it and have it work? Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info