FreeTDS Development Group

[Jon Pounder <pounder AT inline.net>]

Inline (www.inline.net) is proud to announce we have almost completed an
ODBC driver based upon a patched version of the freetds library.

This is being released today as a binary only alpha copy for people to try
on various o/s's. Source will be released shortly as well, once it has
stabilized somewhat, and debugging sections removed.

This is being released in this manner due to the increased number of items
on various lists asking for tds library fixes we already have, and for a
driver for Sybase and MS Sqlserver in general. When we feel the code is in
a relatively stable and clean state, we will be releasing the driver itself
as open source.

There have been changes to the freetds library as well so we are getting
those integrated in that project meanwhile. (This includes porting it to
windows). 

The driver runs with various versions of MS Sqlserver and Sybase, and on
either windows or various unix variants. The driver has been a ground up
redo of the existing freetds odbc driver, and fixes many of the incorrect
behaviours it had, as well as adding a host of new features. 

The driver does not require a native ODBC driver on the system with the
dbms. The driver communicates directly with the dbms engine, and is not a
bridge of any sort. The only server side requirement is having the dbms
configured to use tcp/ip, and not just named pipes which is the MS default.

Several additional features are in the works related to the catalog
functions, and multidirectional cursors, and those will be completed as
well when we release the source code.

The drivers is posted on the http://library.freeodbc.org download page. 

Contact me directly if you need a driver for an operating system it is not
posted for.




        Jon Pounder,   Development Engineer
        Inline Internet Systems
        pounder AT inline.net Jon AT Pounder.com

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