OpenLink Software

OpenLink Software ( http://www.openlinksw.com/ ) is a software company specialising in data-access technology such as ODBC, JDBC etc. Products include UDA (ODBC, JDBC and .NET database-access drivers) and Virtuoso (a virtual-database and Web-services platform). iODBC is an open-source project (released under the LGPL or BSD licenses) hosted by OpenLink Software for the benefit of the wider community, to implement and improve a free and Open ODBC Driver Manager component for Linux / Unix / VMS / MacOS X / platforms. iODBC copyright is co-owned by Ke Jin and OpenLink Software. OpenLink are the sole project custodian and sponsor. Advertising: OpenLink may benefit from the publicity of hosting iODBC.org, with its links to various vendors of ODBC drivers for assorted platforms and RDBMS, but we don't set out to abuse the open-source project for commercial gain. There are plenty enough free and open-source database-drivers for Free databases (mysql, postgresql, Firebird and maybe others). The OpenLink philosophy is to facilitate OS- and database-independent connectivity through ODBC, to which end having an open-source driver-manager component is advantageous. Resources: various OpenLink employees work on actively developing and maintaining the authoritative CVS sources of the iODBC project, administering the server on which the site runs, maintaining the www.iodbc.org website, responding to posts on the public forums, etc. Executive summary: think `nice .com hosts free .org' and you'll not be far from the truth.