Robert, did anything come of this? And/or have you thought about providing an ODBC driver interface so it could be used via any unix ODBC driver manager? (And thereby DBD::ODBC for Perl.)
Tim. On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:27:09AM -0500, Robert Twitty wrote: > 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 >
