RE: Database drivers (was: news400 goes negative on IBM?) -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: RE: Database drivers (was: news400 goes negative on IBM?)
From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 13:07:27 -0500
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I was looking from the other direction.  If a database vendor supports
only a Type 4 JDBC Driver, then that database is not accessible from
Windows, since Windows no longer supports Java.

Joe

> From: David Gibbs
> 
> Joe Pluta wrote:
> > You can't say that for Microsoft, since they no longer support Java.
> 
> Much as I hate to come to Microsoft's defense, they do provide type 4
> JDBC drivers for SQL Server ... and have for quite some time.

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