Re: ODBC for UNIX and Linux Port

yar@cs.su.oz.au (Ray Loyzaga) wrote: :I've recently started doing some web sites where customers have been :asking for web based access to their existing databases. I hadn't :given it much thought since I assumed that there would be a fairly :straight forward way for a remote Linux based web server to make :socket based queries to the company database server. Upon investigation :I have only found "solutions" which assume that the client application :is going to be run on a machine with a full blown DB development system. :While my prefered language is Python, it appears that all the other languages :with some DB hooks all expect their DB modules to be compiled with :something like ESQL/C and linked against the vendors libraries. :I've looked at using ODBC, but it seems to be implemented the same way, :you need to link against some libraries that don't exist under Linux. : :Is there anyone out there who can clarify that this is not the real :situation? Your best bet is to get ODBC/UDBC (I don't realy know the difference between these) for Linux from OpenLink. That should give you the connectivity you want to an Informix database on another server. They also have JDBC drivers that may be used in a similar way if your web soulutions are Java based. I have not tested any of these solutions yet. :As for a Linux port, even if Informix Corp can't see the need for a Linux :port, I would suggest that the scenario I have outlined above would be very :commonplace. Many companies will be trying to get access to corporate :databases which run on their servers, however it is unlikely that their :web servers can or should run the same DB. Lots of web servers are Linux/Apache :based, why on earth should you need to change this to gain access to :a remote DB??? You are obviously right. Informix should enter into some kind of relationship with OpenLink to be able to resel proper connectivity software for this as well as most other ODBC related purposes. Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org