FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> i can verify that ASE 12 works using FreeTDS 0.52.
> i connected from a BeOS PC and also from a Solaris 2.51 server.
> ASE 12.0 was running on an ultra-sparc on Solaris 2.7
> In fact i have a FreeTDS and SQSH bundle for BeOS which works very well.

I can't help but be impressed by this.  

One measure of software design is surely flexibility: the ability to be
used/adapated in ways the designer never intended.  

On a scale of 0 to 1, what do you think the probability is that:

1.      Scott Gray intended SQSH to work on BeOS?
and
2.      Brian Bruns intended FreeTDS to connect SQSH on BeOS to a future
version of Sybase?

I vote: 0.  Sybase also deserves some credit for not breaking the protocol.
Chalk up one for open collaboration.  

Did anyone else have the same reaction?  

--jkl