FreeTDS Development Group

["Mark J. Lilback" <mark AT lilback.com>]

At 4:00 PM -0500 1/29/2003, Brian Bruns wrote:
> BTW, someone forwarded me a note the other day, and I don't know if you
> guys have seen this, but Sybase apparently is using FreeTDS for its plugin
> to REALBasic on the Mac, which I personally find fascinating.

They have their own fork of it, which Steve Olson gave to me to 
integrate back into the project. They don't have a version of their 
client libraries that works without installing the whole server, and 
there are a number of issues with how they build the client 
libraries. I've been working with them to fix that, but until then, 
FreeTDS is the best solution.

I haven't had time to integrate their changes back in, but I can send 
the tarball to anyone interested in taking a crack at it.

One neat thing they've done with their native client is add 
Rendezvous support. Applications can get a dynamic list of all 
servers on the local subnet and offer them to the user.

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