>David J N Begley wrote:
> >
> > does anyone have any insight into when an
> > IB6-compatible ODBC kit might be available?

At 01:39 PM 7/25/00 -0600, Brad Pepers wrote:

>The ODBC driver is what I need as well. It would be nice to get a bit
>of a status report from Jim Starkey on how its going and timeframes.
>This is important enough to us that we would be glad to fund it to get
>it done ASAP (its either pay $$$ to someone like Sybase to use their
>product or pay to advance Interbase and I know where I would rather
>spend my money!).

The problem with the ODBC driver is this. Jim contracted with
ISC to write the driver. Since we have no deal with Inprise,
we have no money and no way to pay him for his work. He is
understandably reluctant to put his code out open source where
anyone can grab and run with it.

I deeply regret the problems this is causing the InterBase
community.

Regards,

Ann