FreeTDS Development Group

["Brian Bruns" <brian.bruns AT gmail.com>]

Have a look at DRDA (http://www.opengroup.org/dbiop/)

It's used as DB2's native protocol.  Unfortunately, as a standard it seems
to be going nowhere.

I did a project called OpenDRDA, that has also gone nowhere due to lack of
time, but I did some preliminary work of bolting this onto both PostgreSQL
and MySQL and someday I may return to it.  My thought was that if DB2 + all
the free databases used it then Sybase, Microsoft and Oracle would
eventually be forced to join the fold.

The best laid plans of mice and men....

Brian

2007/4/19, James K. Lowden <jklowden AT freetds.org>:
> I look forward to the day when database clients and servers are as
> interchangeable as are web and email servers and clients.  It is a dim and
> distant future, I know.  To get there, we need a text-based protocol, even
> if it includes an xs:base64Binary encoding option.  (There is no example
> of a widely implemented free binary protocol, unless you count NFS, which
> I don't.)  It certainly won't put the proprietary/specialized protocols
> out of business right away, but it would simplify and standardize database
> access.
>
> I personally believe this will a logical outgrowth of the widespread
> adoption of free databases.