FreeTDS Development Group

[Michael Peppler <mpeppler AT peppler.org>]

Lowden, James K writes:
 > > 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?

Actually it's mostly that BeOS has C libraries and system calls that
are compatible with "normal" unix calls, so that sqsh, FreeTDS, and
other C code compiles and runs...

However, I agree that having the source code gives us at least the
possiblity to getting things to run on new and different platforms.

Michael
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