Hi Just to let you know , other OS distributors have distributed unixODBC drivers for some time now. I very much hope that we consider to bundle it as well so that upstack components like PHP community can benefit from this integration.
thanks sriram Josh Berkus wrote: > Sriram, > > >> 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. >> > > In principle I'm in favor of more drivers. However, I have a few questions: > > What's the licensing on the Oracle client? We can't necessarily just > include proprietary SW on Opensolaris. > > FreeTDS is a bit beta-quality, so it would require some QA, and probably > debugging for Solaris, first. Who's asking for this? Are there really > a lot of users who have a DB server on Windows and a web server on Solaris? > > unixODBC/iODBC keeps coming up as an issue, but we're not seeing actual > user requests. Do you have users with a need for it? That could affect > the priority. > > --Josh > _______________________________________________ > databases-discuss mailing list > databases-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/databases-discuss >
