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

[Hannu Krosing]

Richard Moon wrote:
> 
> 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.

Where did you get thet impression ??

Maybe you mean the iODBC driver manager for Linux (and UNIX 
in general) that are currently maintained by OpenLink

> 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.

ODBC does not imply NT, ODBC is mostly ANSI SQL CLI .
 
> Excuse my ignorance but since there is a Python interface to Informix does
> that not make it possible to link Zope to Informix directly ?

Yes, if you or someone else writes the missing piece - the ZopeDA.

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Hannu