Re: in place of I-Net

David Williams wrote in message ... >In article <35030E80.18560013@sco.com_no_spam>, Allan Gould ><allang@sco.com_no_spam> writes >>ANTS wrote: >> >>> Is there an ODBC that can work without I-Net? I have check OpenLink they >>> still need I-Net. >> >>Ours doesn't. SCO SQL-Retriever. Take a look at >>http://www.sco.com/vision/products/sqlretriever/ for more information and a >>downloadable eval. >> > So why is yours better than OpenLink? > I would be interested in the answer to this question. I can certainly tell you why OpenLink is better than any other ODBC Driver for Informix (or any other database we support for that matter) . 1. Performance - download our drivers and run the ODBC benchmark programs that we bundle or even easier simply use them, you will catch the difference with the naked eye. You can also download our OpenLink ODBC SCAN product for a deeper insight into how much better we are at handling ODBC APIs. 2. Security - Extremely sophisticated, it is Rules Based and ensures Server OS user verification, as well as providing optional data encryption. 3. Centralized or distributed configuration management - We have a "Session Rules Book" facility (now HTML Based aka OpenLink Web Configurator) that enables our Drivers behave according to Rules that you set, these rules can be based on Username, Client OS, ODBC Client, Client Machine, Database Name, Domain (user definable), or any combination of these factors. Point your browser to http://oplweb.openlinksw.com:8000 for a live demo to see what I mean first hand. 4. OpenLink delivers driver and server based scrollable cursor support (across all our supported DB Engines) as demonstrated by the JDBC Applet Demo at : http://oplweb.openlinksw.com/demo/JDK1.1/index.htm this demo makes use of our JDBC-ODBC Bridge. I rest my case. Regards, Kingsley Idehen President & CEO OpenLink Software