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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ODBC & freeBSD
Date: 18 Mar 1997 06:26:11 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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Honorable Mike Payne
wrote on 17 Mar (in article <332DC321.7932@madisontelco.com>):
=Does anyone know of any ODBC client drivers for freeBSD? I need to
=access a Microsoft SQL-Server 6.5 database running on a Windows NT 4.0
Impressive, how people still believe a single word from company,
that "brought you Windows"... The icons must really have some magic
attractivness.
=system from a web site running freeBSD. I found an ODBC client manager,
=but not any drivers. If there are not any drivers, does anyone know of
=any products that I can purchase that would allow me to access the
=database?
There are quite powerfull database engines for FreeBSD and other decent
Unices. Get rid of NT alltogether -- that machine you now waste for it
can be the web-server, the database server and someone's workstation if
driven by a decent OS.
-mi
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