Re: SAPDB not competitive due to neglect of Win32 drivers

On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Sven Köhler wrote:

> That still true, but it Mono might become a good choice for cross
> platform development too, although that might take some years.

Well, C# and .Net is going to be windows only and almost
exclusively microsoft backed, so if you think you are getting cross
platform capabilities like Java or Perl, think again, it's going to be
more like the cross platform capabilities of C when you use a lot of
binary only liberaries.


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

Then maybe he shouldn't use .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.

So if an ODBC bridge already exists, then what is he missing?

Writing a new .NET-only sapdb client does not make it better, the solution
is to use the ODBC interface and if it turns out to be lacking, improve
it.

I've heard mumblings of a new, modern ODBC interface being written for SAP
DB, so maybe that's the answer; wait a while and see if a better driver
should pop up.