That still true, but it Mono might become a good choice for cross platform development too, although that might take some years.
Well, C# and .Net is going to be windows only and almost exclusively microsoft backed, so if you think you are getting cross platform capabilities like Java or Perl, think again, it's going to be more like the cross platform capabilities of C when you use a lot of binary only liberaries.
It's a bit OT but you just said .NET was "invented" my Microsoft, you didn't tell anything what you expect for Mono's future. I hope it odesn't get forbidden due to any software patents.
BTW: ODBC was invented my MS to (i don't know for sure, but i'm about 99% sure), and it's going to get popular for UNIX too.
Well, you're using ODBC, and i guess Stephen can't use ODBC any more since it is poorly supported by .NET ...
Then maybe he shouldn't use .NET?
What an arrogant position.
Why can't a C# driver link to the ODBC driver?
Surely he could, but you'd reinvent the wheel because you're just writing yet another ODBC bridge.
So if an ODBC bridge already exists, then what is he missing?
Would you use the JDBC-ODBC bridge? i guess no. You would expect a good JDBC driver and fortunately we have such 100% Java driver for SAPDB.
Without it, i wouldn't have chosen SAPDB for my work, since a bridges are often faulty and unreliable.
Writing a new .NET-only sapdb client does not make it better, the solution is to use the ODBC interface and if it turns out to be lacking, improve it.
Well, we can't influence the ODBC API itself, just solve bugs within SAPDB's ODBC driver. In addition you'll have to fight with the birdge's bugs.
I've heard mumblings of a new, modern ODBC interface being written for SAP DB, so maybe that's the answer; wait a while and see if a better driver should pop up.
What the hell is a "modern ODBC interface" ? Will the SAPDB ODBC driver support a higher version of ODBC?
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