Am Sam, 03 Apr 1999 schrieb George Greer:
> On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Christian Loth wrote:
>
> Checked lately?
>
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> "Prior to this release there had been a lot of confusion surrounding the
> licensing of the iODBC Driver Manager component, the end result being
> stunted development and deployment of ODBC compliant applications outside
> of the WIN32 platform", said Kingsley Idehen, President & CEO, OpenLink
> Software Inc. "Now that iODBC is licensed under GNU's Library General
> Public License scheme, we can realistically expect an explosion of cross
> platform iODBC & ODBC compliant applications, especially in the Internet
> space". He added.
>
> IODBC Driver Manager v2.50 is available for immediate download from
> OpenLink Software, Inc.'s iODBC Software Download URL:
> http://www.openlinksw.com/iodbc/software.htm
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>
> Or am I missing something besides any $ whatsoever?
The Driver Manager is free yes, but the drivers themselves not.
e.g. at work we have a really screwed (but don't mention it to
my boss, because he insists on that one ;) ) setup, with a Linux
client acessing an M$ Access Database on a NT Server.
The components that cost $$$ are the Request Broker, and the
Drivers. So the actual software is (damn I hope this looks
somewhat recognisable :P )
Client Server
---- ----
Application RDBMS (Oracle, Informix, whatever)
| ^
| |
| DB Agent ($$$$)
| ^
| |
| Request Broker ($$$$)
| ^
V |
Driver Manager(GPL) --> Multi Tier Driver ($$$$)
- Chris
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