Any ideas? Here the problem again: Use a Windows ODBC database from Zope on Linux. Only OpenSource products can be used.
If you need to see the database connection on your Linux Zope you could try one of the Linux-running ODBC connections to go straight to the server (search this list for links) or perhaps you could use ZEO or some other scheme to mount the Storage of your other Zope to your Linux Zope. Perhaps less complicated would be the XML-RPC Proxy product (http://www.zope.org/Members/dshaw/XMLRPCProxy). Dunno if this can proxy DB connections. If not, perhaps you could create a proxying DB Connection, which would use XML-RPC to call the one on the other server. Otherwise, use xml-rpc or the previously mentioned ZClient to call methods on the other server. --jcc