Problem: InterBase does not provide a Unix ODBC driver Solution: InterBase does not provide an ODBC driver for Unix. Unless a Unix ODBC driver is purchased from another vendor, ODBC client applications cannot be created on a unix system and connect to an InterBase server. Our ODBC driver is exclusive to Windows (NT or 95) and can connect to any InterBase server. So... if you had an ODBC client application that ran on win95/NT it could connect to your InterBase 4.x server running on a unix machine as well as an InterBase server running on NT. The ODBC driver basically maps ODBC function calls to client InterBase API calls. The InterBase client API has the ability to communicate with an InterBase server running on any of our supported platforms, thus the windows ODBC driver can communicate with any of the InterBase Servers.
Last Modified: 02-OCT-00