Re: FN-FORUM: Databases

date posted 4th August 2003 10:35

One thing I would like to see in the very near future would be native php
functions to access DB2 (I know you can use ODBC with a performance hit, but
unixODBC is tedious to setup). If the nice people at PHP would do this it
would certainly give DB2 a bonus in the SME arena; however, it is expensive.

There is also another possible db alternative, there is an open source
version of Borland Interbase called Firebird RDBMS and also an open source
version of SAP call sapDB, could be possible future alternatives??? Firebird
already has PHP support through the PHP interbase functions and you can also
get a re-hack of phpMyAdmin called phpIBAdmin to use it in the same ways as
a lot of people use MySQL at the moment.

Firebird can be found at:
http://firebird.sourceforge.net/

SAPDB can be found at
http://www.sapdb.org

Best Regards

John