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Chris McDonough wrote No, unfortunately, it's not possible. You can use the Sybase database adapter to talk to SQL Server 6.5 from Linux. SQL Server 7 evidently has a different wire protocol which prevents it from working against the Sybase DA. There is no ODBC support for Linux in Zope, and though there have been rumblings about getting such a thing going one way or another, nothing concrete has happened.

Not entirely true. You won't be able to use some SQL Server 7 features if you use the Sybase adaptor, but the standard stuff should work fine. Once freetds is thread safe, it should also be useful. Anthony