Hello I created an open source solution that allows you to remotely connect to any Win32 ODBC accessible database from any platform. It is called ODBTP. Information about it can be found at http://odbtp.sourceforge.net. It was primarily designed to provide complete access to MS-SQL databases from UNIX platforms like Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X, becaus there were no adequate open source solutions for this purpose.
Because I am an extensive user of PHP, I created a PHP extension for ODBTP. It has proven to be a solid solution, and is very fast. In fact, one user said the PHP/ODBTP solution was faster than the Perl/ODBC solution. It is also faster and more capable than FreeTDS-based solutions. Now, the reason why I am here is because several requests have been made for a DBD::ODBTP perl interface. Unfortunately, I have very little experience with perl, and have absolutely no idea about DBD driver creation. So, I was wondering if there is anyone who would be willing to take a look at ODBTP, and create one for this project. I am currently working on ODBTP 1.1, and that plus my other obligations does not allow me enough time to go through the perl learning curve and development process. -- bob
