Easysoft Ltd would like to announce the third public beta of the
ODBC-ODBC Bridge for Linux. The ODBC-ODBC Bridge is a package of
libraries which provide applications on Linux with access to ODBC
data sources on remote machines. Examples of using the ODBC-ODBC
Bridge are:
[1] Apache/PHP + the ODBC-ODBC Bridge (running on Linux) to read/write
data held in Microsoft SQLServer on NT.
[2] Perl + DBI + DBD:ODBC + the ODBC-ODBC Bridge (running on Linux) to
read/write data held in a Microsoft Access database on NT.
[3] As above but with Python's mxODBC, or any C application.
[4] Access from StarOffice or Applixware on Linux to remote ODBC
databases.
The Easysoft ODBC-ODBC Bridge provides the full ODBC 3.5 API
specification and also includes parts of the ODBC 2.0 API now
deprecated in ODBC 3.0/3.5. This allows the application developer
to link directly with the Easysoft ODBC-ODBC Bridge client without
the requirement to install a driver manager on the Linux client
(although you can do if you want).
Changes since the second public beta include:
[1] Added support for Microsoft SQLServer 7.0, Windows 2000 beta3,
Windows 95, Solaris/Sparc, StarOffice, Python ODBC Interface mxODBC
and the unixODBC driver manager.
[2] New multithreaded ODBC-ODBC Bridge Server,
[3] network traffic compression
[4] alpha Block-Fetch-mode
[5] various bug fixes
[6] new beta expiry date of 1st October 1999.
See http://beta.easysoft.com/html/odbcbridge/odbcnew.html
for a full list of changes.
The third public beta of the Easysoft ODBC-ODBC Bridge may be
downloaded from:
ftp://ftp.easysoft.com/pub/beta/odbc-odbc-bridge/
For information on other released Easysoft products please see
our main web site at http://www.easysoft.com.
Martin
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Martin J. Evans martin@easysoft.com
http://www.easysoft.com
Easysoft Ltd.