Re: SAPDB not competitive due to neglect of Win32 drivers

>>A dotNet driver is only going to help SAPDB / MaxDB.
> 
> No, it's going to cost money and time to develop and maintain and it's
> going to help microsofts loonie-platform gain credibility.
> 
> If people want to write cross platform programs they are better of using
> Java, if they want to write windows programs then it's only fitting that
> they bear the full pain of the bysantine windows api and language
> selection.

That still true, but it Mono might become a good choice for cross 
platform development too, although that might take some years.
Until Mono has gone somewhat stable and has a usuabl APi, i wouldn't 
write a SAPDB driber too, but hey, Stephen was talking about Windows 
development.

>>>I would add that our testing has shown what Daniel says to be
>>>true.  Using Perl on Linux or using dotNet on Windows we find SAPDB to be
>>>one of the most unreliable and poor performing database systems :)
> 
> I use SAP DB via DBD::ODBC from Perl on Linux and have for years and I
> havn't seen those stability problems once I made my aplication use ODBC
> correctly (close result sets and so forth).

Well, you're using ODBC, and i guess Stephen can't use ODBC any more 
since it is poorly supported by .NET ...

> Why can't a C# driver link to the ODBC driver?

Surely he could, but you'd reinvent the wheel because you're just 
writing yet another ODBC bridge.