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> From: Joe Geiser <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: The end of the PC (longish)
> Date: Monday, December 07, 1998 8:05 PM
>
> I was originally going to ask if this thread was ever going to die... but
> then I read:
>
> > And since you brought up ODBC on the Mac... :-)
> >
> > You can check the Apple Developer web site for MacODBC, which has been
> > available since 1996, IIRC. However, IMO the reason most Mac developers
> > don't use ODBC is because they have other, better tools to do the
> > client-server thing on a Mac; but I'm not a developer so I haven't done
> > it. And I'd bet the reason most PC developers don't write ODBC stuff
for
> > the Mac is that they're PC developers, and therefore don't know MacODBC
> > even exists.
>
> Actually, we DO know about MacODBC - and I've used it to get to various
> database management systems.  There are some very nice tools for the Mac
-
> and if it wasn't for Alfredo pointing me into a direction where I needed
to
> test web applications with a Mac, I would never have gone out and bought
the
> G3 notebook.  (Thanks Alfredo :)
>
> The problem is that there are no ODBC drivers which work under MacODBC
for
> Image/SQL and Allbase.  This leaves a gaping hole in the strategy of
using
> Macs.
>
> OTOH, to get around it, one can use a web-based application, using a
server
> such as Cold Fusion on NT, and that Mac can now access data on the 3000
> using ODBC - but that's about the only way other than writing some really
> down and dirty code in C at the sockets level or the RPM level (on the
> 3000).
>

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