Re: Universal access to databases

OpenLink Software (http://www.openlinksw.com) makes ODBC drivers and will be releasing a new product, called Virtuoso, in the coming weeks. Virtuoso is a revolutionary, next generation, high-performance virtual database engine for the Distributed Computing Age. It is an essential universal data access middleware technology set to accelerate our advance towards the emerging Information Age. Virtuoso provides transparent access to your existing data sources, which are logical references to databases from different database vendors, exposed by data access drivers also provided by different vendors. Through a single connection, Virtuoso will simultaneously connect your ODBC, JDBC, UDBC, OLE-DB client applications and services to data within Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, DB/2, Informix, Progress, CA-Ingres, Sybase, PostgresSQL, Solid, Velocis and other ODBC compliant database engines. Virtuoso provides the end-user or applications developer with a one application or development environment to many database engines relationship abstracting either party from the complexities of heterogeneous data access.