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Many customers have expressed an interest in not having to purchase
a SPARC station to host our product.  This implies that we either
support a NT version (!!!) or find another database.

Now that Sybase is available for LINUX, I'm fairly confident this
is the path to take.  Thanks Sybase for saving our initial development
investment and allowing us to move forward without starting over
from scratch.
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One thing that strikes me.. wouldn't it be a very tough competitor for
Microsoft SQL Server? After all, there's not _that_ much difference
between the two (Sql Server coming from Sybase ver.10?) and I suspect
that Sybase/Linux runs much better than SQL Server on the same hardware.
What's the pros and cons? (I'm not trying to start any flamewar here,
just interested...)

  Calle

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Quote:> One thing that strikes me.. wouldn't it be a very tough competitor for
> Microsoft SQL Server? After all, there's not _that_ much difference
> between the two (Sql Server coming from Sybase ver.10?) and I suspect
> that Sybase/Linux runs much better than SQL Server on the same hardware.
> What's the pros and cons? (I'm not trying to start any flamewar here,
> just interested...)

>   Calle

Sybase also had versions 4.8 (the first multi-processor release) and
4.9.[12] before version 10.

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Quote:

>One thing that strikes me.. wouldn't it be a very tough competitor for
>Microsoft SQL Server?

Quote:>After all, there's not _that_ much difference
>between the two (Sql Server coming from Sybase ver.10?) and I suspect
>that Sybase/Linux runs much better than SQL Server on the same hardware.

Quote:>What's the pros and cons? (I'm not trying to start any flamewar here,
>just interested...)

Per the license agreement, I can't post the benchmark results but I can
strongly encourage you to do your own benchmarks.  I think you'll find
almost all pro and little, if any, con.  Given the resources that Microsoft
must have put into SQL Server 6.5 + NT to make them run well together vs.
the resources that Sybase put into ASE + Linux (i.e. little more than type
"make" from what I hear), it's compelling.  Not to mention lots of fun.

Suffice to say that we'll be rolling out a commercial product next
month based on Linux/Apache/PHP3.0/Perl/Sybase coupled to our
software.

greg
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Good to hear you got Sybase to work out for you. I was wondering, did you have any
luck in getting sypperl and DBD to work for you under Linux as well? If so, I
would like to hear how your did it.

Thanks

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Another perl related question:
Anybody know how to repair perl after you get a failed sybperl install?

Thanks

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Quote:>Greg,

>Good to hear you got Sybase to work out for you. I was wondering, did you have any
>luck in getting sypperl and DBD to work for you under Linux as well? If so, I
>would like to hear how your did it.

greg
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I suspect that part of my problem is a Red Hat install that is half way in between the
5.0 and 5.1 version levels. In looking at other responses on this news group I see
that you really need 2.0.36 or grater. While I am at it, I think I will go for a full
refresh oof all packages. <sigh> this is going to be painfull.

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Quote:>Greg,

>Good to hear you got Sybase to work out for you. I was wondering, did you have any
>luck in getting sypperl and DBD to work for you under Linux as well? If so, I
>would like to hear how your did it.

  $ cd DBI-1.02
  $ perl Makefile.PL
  $ make
  $ make test
  $ su
  Password:
  # make install
  # exit
  $

The only thing special I had to do was make sure the sybase user's
home directory was the base directory of the installation (I set a
softlink from /home/sybase to /opt/sybase).

Getting DBD::Sybase to work over DBI::Proxy, on the other hand,
well that was just gross.  Required lots of hacking and slashing
to even get multiple result sets across the wire, and I'm not even
done yet...

and delete any directories that are named Sybase, as well as files named
DBlib.* or CTlib.*

Not the cleanest of operations - but it should work.

Michael
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Mr. Peppler,

Thanks!

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