On Thursday 01 March 2001 21:54, Ruben I Safir - Brooklyn Linux Solutions CEO wrote:
Sybase drivers are the bases for MS-SQL connectivity -- MS SQL Server (which they refuse to give a real name) was origianlly a Sybase Rental.
You don't think MS could invent a RDMS by themselves...do you.
Ruben
Ruben, Indeed. I seem to have forgotten that piece of ancient lore. MS had some kind of 10 year non-compete agreement or similar arrangement with Sybase. MS-SQL served as a fine stand-alone RDBMS when we were using it. It did exactly what Access should have done. You haven't tried to do replication with it have you???? Be frightened, be very very frightened! OTOH MS-SQL *does* have some really cool icons. {;-)> I never did a lot of daily RDBMS work, but my job kept me close to some pretty neat stuff. Some of our team were using something called Sybase Omni-connect. It was able to talk to many different RDBMSs. After I sent that message out I was wondering if you were trying to use something similar. I guess the question I need to ask in order to justify keeping this on the list is, have you met with success? Steve