Data Access Worldwide has announced that the latest revisions of the DataFlex Connectivity Kits (revision 2.2) for MS-SQL, IBM DB2 and ODBC have been released. We encourage developers who are currently using these Connectivity Kits to upgrade to revision 2.2 in order to take advantage of the latest
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Database Users Keen on Linux 2.6 Kernel
By Lisa Vaas – Database users who rely on Linux operating systems are drooling over the list of features promised by the soon-to-be-released 2.6 kernel.
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