Sriram Natarajan wrote:
> Hi
> I am currently involved with WebStack project in OpenSolaris and would
> like to add more extensions for recently integrated PHP so that
> programmers can use our platform for development / production purposes.
> Based on the some of the feedback we received from some customers
> (outside Sun), it seems that we need to more database support within
> PHP and this requires databases client libraries like Free TSD , Oracle
> Instant Client and unixODBC to pre-exist on the system.
I understand that developers want to have Oracle install client there
and it is good idea. I'm not sure if we able to bundle it with
OpenSolaris, because there could be some license issue.
We (database team) discussed unixODBC integration few weeks ago and we
made decision, that currently there is not much reasons to do it -> it
was put at the end of the TODO list. Somebody also complained about some
problems with this driver (I cannot remember).
FreeTSD is nice project, but personally I'm afraid that it is not usable
for production system and we could have a lot of problem to support it
and integrate it into opensolaris. Do you know how many users wanted
this feature?
Zdenek
> Now, I am not a database expert and I would like to hear your views as
> to can we add these databases within SXDE. If possible, I will be more
> than happy to work / assist with some one in Open Solaris database team
> to help with the integration of these libraries.
>
> Note: Please find below an email that I sent to webstack-discuss and
> sfwnv-discuss (where some one referred me to this alias.)
>
> thanks
> Sriram
>
>
>
> Sriram Natarajan wrote:
>> Hi
>> I am currently exploring the possibility of adding support for more
>> databases like MSSQL , Oracle within PHP. This would require some
>> database client libraries to exist in the system. So, I was wondering as
>> to what is the consensus for adding these client libraries within
>> OpenSolaris SFW repository.
>>
>> These are these 3 client libraries that I would like to initially target :
>>
>> - Free TSD -> http://www.freetds.org/ - Useful for connecting to
>> databases like Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase
>> - Oracle Instant Client ->
>> http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/oci/instantclient/index.html
>> - unixODBC -> open source ODBC Manager
>>
>> Note: I looked at the licensing requirement of these components and I
>> didn't notice any restrictions.
>>
>> Any thoughts / criticisms ?
>>
>> thanks
>> sriram
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