[WinMac] ODBC and Macs
ZMac1@aol.com
Sun, 13 Sep 1998 14:49:17 EDT
>IMHO, the lack of dde and ODBC capability between Macs and Windows is a
>serious hurdle to Macs being used extensively in database- and/
>middleware-intensive enterprise applications. Dde and ODBC make it so
>simple to enter data and receive reports via front-end apps like Access,
>Excel and Word and allow back-end products like SQL server, Oracle, and
>SAS handle the actual data crunching.
You can make it easy for Macs too. There are ODBC drivers you can add to
Macs, and some Mac software is ODBC compatible. There's also a product
from August Software (714-450-2450) called ODBC Router. Here's a
description from MacWindows.com:
"Sits on a Windows NT Server and enables Mac OS and Windows 95
applications to access any ODBC database residing on the NT machine or on
other computers on the network. Mac ODBC applications, including MS
Office 98 Mac Edition, can access over 265 mainstream database systems
via both AppleTalk and TCP/IP. ODBC Router routes ODBC requests between
the NT Server's 32-bit ODBC drivers and computers running August's ODBC
OverDRIVER, which works with MacODBC on a Mac."
John Rizzo
Editor and webmaster
http://www.macwindows.com
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