[KLUG Members] Mailing list on Programming on Linux

[Andrew Thompson]

On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 19:55, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> For client database applications, please by all the powers-that-be, use
> ODBC.  Copies of the Microsoft ODBC SDK & Programmers Reference Guide
> are abundant, and this documentation (versions 3.0 or 3.5) is entirely
> compatible with both ODBC systems available for Linux (iODBC or
> unixODBC).  And M$'s ODBC documentation is still the best around (I know
> how shocking that sounds).

This brings up a question I've been sort of wanting to ask for awhile,
but never got around to asking: what is the status and/or relationship
between ODBC and OLEDB? I'd read that OLEDB was supposed to replace
ODBC, the latter having become "obsolete". I'd been wondering for awhile
whether we're going to be seeing an OLEDB equivalent in the open source
(read: Linux) arena, and what it's likely to mean if we don't.

Any thoughts?
-- 
Andrew Thompson <tempes at ameritech.net>
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