ODBC on unix w/o mxODBC

Paul Boddie paul at boddie.net
Tue Feb 19 07:34:16 EST 2002


Ville Vainio <vvainio at karhu.tp.spt.fi> wrote in message news:<yoxr8niyiyf.fsf at karhu.tp.spt.fi>...
> 
> Direct connection doesn't work in my case (my DBMS only offers ODBC
> and JDBC). However, I overreacted a little bit w/ mxODBC - I thought
> it was $500 (as it used to be), but I was emailed that it is in fact
> $75.

You could always make a SWIG wrapper for iODBC - I started one to see
how hard it might be - but in the end it's probably cheaper (time is
money, so they say) to license mxODBC.

Paul



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