[Zope-dev] Is ODBC the way to go ?

[Richard Moon]

Being brand new to Zope I may have misunderstood some of the things I have 
seen in the archives but ...it seems that the intention is to concentrate 
on Openlink ODBC for database connections.

I have used Openlink for many years and would say that it is a fine product 
but I have serious doubts that it is the way to go for general database 
connections. (It's not Open Source either..)

My particular background is Informix and I would love to use Zope, but 
there is no native interface. I'm happy to use ODBC during development but 
for a large scale implementation ? Perhaps its just prejudice but it is a 
prejudice which will
be shared by PHB's everywhere.

Also ODBC implies NT and that goes against the whole Open Source philosophy 
surely.

Excuse my ignorance but since there is a Python interface to Informix does 
that not make it possible to link Zope to Informix directly ?

Regards



Richard

Richard Moon
richard@dcs.co.uk