[Zope-dev] ODBC on linux

[Christopher Petrilli]

On 2/2/00 10:43 AM, Gabor Melis at gabor.melis@essnet.se wrote:

> Hi gentlemen
> 
> Is there en effort to bring ODBC drivers to Zope on linux? It seems
> to me that we have iodbc and unixodbc. Are these stable enough to
> work with?

These are just driver MANAGERS, they are not drivers.  All drivers (except
Postgres and MySQL) are currently commercial.  We are working with OpenLink
(http://www.openlinksw.com) which are free for use under 10 sessions to the
database, and come in hundreds of flavors.

> On a slightly different note, is there a way to connect to an
> oracle db on another computer *without* having any oracle specific
> libraries?

You'd need the drivers mentioned above.

Chris
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