Re: SAPDB not competitive due to neglect of Win32 drivers

Sven Köhler <[email protected]>
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08/09/2003 05:23 PM

 
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        Subject:        Re: SAPDB not competitive due to neglect of Win32 drivers



>It's a bit OT but you just said .NET was "invented" my Microsoft, you 
>didn't tell anything what you expect for Mono's future. I hope it 
>odesn't get forbidden due to any software patents.
>BTW: ODBC was invented my MS to (i don't know for sure, but i'm about 
>99% sure), and it's going to get popular for UNIX too.

Actually, this isn't true.  When I said before "ODBC is the closest to
a standard MS supports for databases", I wan't just being completely 
silly,
I have read some database books recently that talked about a major 
proposed
open standard, which ODBC primarily copied.  ODBC was the first major
implementation, so the parent standard mostly died.  (I wish I could 
remember
the name of the original standards).

>> Then maybe he shouldn't use .NET?
> What an arrogant position.

It sounds sensible to some who don't know that sometimes you have to use
what you are told to. It's nice to say "we shouldn't waste our time on
OpenOffice for windows", but when I have to use windows, I am happy there
is openoffice too ;)

>Would you use the JDBC-ODBC bridge? i guess no. You would expect a good 
>JDBC driver and fortunately we have such 100% Java driver for SAPDB.
>Without it, i wouldn't have chosen SAPDB for my work, since a bridges 
>are often faulty and unreliable.

In this case though, the bridge should be fixed.  I did the work to fix 
the
ODBC to DBX bridge for SAPDB.  It wasn't fun, but it works 100% reliably 
for
me now.

thanks,
   noah silva