Re: ODBC: Openlink, Intersolv or Informix?

Hi, In article <366daee3.4238958@newshost.interact.net.au>, granta@nospam.student.canberra.edu.au (Fuzzy) wrote: > On Tue, 08 Dec 1998 15:51:12 -0500, Tony Marasco > <tonmar@berksiu.k12.pa.us> wrote: > > >We are currently looking at buying an ODBC pack for Online > >5.x (to be upgraded to 7.x soon.) Currently I have a single- > >user license of Intersolv and other license from Crystal > >Info Server. We want the ODBC connectivity for new graphical > >applications (VB, Delphi, & Powerbuilder) and MS Office. > >I am under the impression that PB has its own drivers. > > > >My biggest dilemma is which product to buy. I like Intersolv's > >drivers as I have had no problems with it. I was told the > >Informix drivers are Intersolv's drivers. Openlink is > >getting attention because they claim it works on a Mac. It > >would be nice to find drivers that are cross-platform > >(PC and Mac). > > > >Does anyone have comments/suggestions on which path I should > >suggest? The boss (who has and loves his MAC) wants Openlink > >because of the Mac access. From what I saw we must run their > >server software, unless I misunderstood their docs. > > > >TIA! Any help is greatly appreciated! > > I've found over the years that even though Intersolv sells its drivers > to the DB companies, which just re-badge them and package them with > their product, the two sometimes act in subtely different ways. This > can be really annoying. > > I've also just learned (though I'll admit this hasn't been > substantiated) that Intersolv's drivers don't support threads - so any > plans to use MTS or CORBA could be affected. > > Don't know much about Openlink, so I can't comment > OpenLink provide high-performance ODBC, JDBC and UDBC data access drivers, independent of platform / OS and database. This includes Mac as a client. They're available for free non-expiry evaluation download from <http://www.openlinksw.com/>; onwards. HTH! ~Tim -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own