Re: Informix ODBC

In article <44gtlf$10k@redstone.interpath.net> Mike Lemon <Mike_Lemon@mdl.pdial.interpath.net> writes: > >Looks like there's no hope for a freeware Informix ODBC >driver. As usual, Informix builds one at an exorbitant price >so all the third-party vendors can up their's and still beat >Informix's. There may be a freeware driver someday but it is far more difficult to write than one might imagine. To the best of my knowledge, Informix hasn't written one but is now reselling the Visigenic ODBC driver. >BTW, what did Informix ever do to MicroSlut? Bill The Pill >provides ODBC drivers for all the PC databases, Sybase, SQL >Server (same thing), and Oracle--but not Informix? Am I >missing something here? Who shafted who first? >Mike Lemon Historically, I think that Informix has been under-represented by many third-party products. I think this is due to Informix never having had a real CLI/API (ala Oracle OCI or Sybase DBLIB) but only providing embedded SQL (ESQL/C etc). I can remember trying to make this point years ago while I was an employee at Informix. Pre 5.x ESQL was not easy to use due to it's static cursor naming model. Also, many programmer's aren't comfortable with and/or don't trust pre-processors. Scott