Hi Here is a related discussion in webstack-discuss that I initiated where at least one customer has been very much vocal in asking for client database drivers.
thanks sriram Sriram Natarajan wrote: > 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > databases-discuss mailing list > databases-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/databases-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Manyi Lu <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [webstack-discuss] Additional PHP extensions for SXDE Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:32:24 +0100 Size: 10686 URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/databases-discuss/attachments/20071030/b013f0f8/attachment.nws>
