"Craig A. Berry" wrote:
>
> At 11:44 AM 8/29/2001 +0000, Piyush Avichal wrote:
>
> >Could somebody tell me where I can find the MySql Development Libraries
> >required for the MySQL DBD.
>
> I've never heard of a MySQL port to VMS. Indeed I don't know of any
> freeware or open source RDBMS on VMS. Mimer at least has a free developer
> license and an ODBC interface that might work with DBD::ODBC:
Dan O'Reilly of Process Software was looking into porting MySQL a couple
of years ago. He got reasonably far, but I seem to recall that there were
a couple of Really Hard Obstacles to overcome.
Awhile back Interbase announced they're going the Open Source route,
and given its heritage an OpenVMS port wouldn't be surprising.
Brad
