Not the first, just "one of" [LWN.net]

Not the first, just "one of"

Posted Apr 20, 2003 0:03 UTC (Sun) by ucntcme (guest, #10755)
Parent article: Interview: MySQL rides open source wave into DBs (InfoWorld)

First non-MS db with a ".Net interface"?

Funny, I though Python provided me that for nearly all databases. ;^)

Anyway, as I understand it .Net uses ODBC as well, meaning it could interface with *any* DB that has ODBC bindings. Surely, they are not assertign that only MySQL and MS SQL Server have ODBC?

This link http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/npgsql/projdisplay.php is just one .Net provider for PostgreSQL. Back in February, it was incorporated into Mono.

According to: http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html
Oracle, DB2, SQLLite, and Sybase interfaces are all also in Mono. Last I knew MS didn't own *any* of them.

Oh, and there is also: http://www.datadirect-technologies.com/products/dotnet/dotnetindex.asp
providing .Net for DB2, Oracle, Sybase, and MS SQL. All found with a few short googlings.

*sigh*, more inaccurate marketing hype, it seems. :(

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Not the first, just "one of"

Posted Apr 21, 2003 10:42 UTC (Mon) by Peter (guest, #1127) [Link]

So what are you saying? Are you claiming that MySQL was not in fact the first non-Microsoft database engine to get a .NET interface? Or are you claiming that, whether or not they were the first non-Microsoft database engine with a .NET interface, there are now many non-Microsoft database engines with .NET interfaces?

You seem to be saying the former, but most of your post seems merely to be making a case for the latter.

(No, I'm not a MySQL fanboy, I'm a PG fanboy in fact - it's just that your post isn't quite internally consistent.)