Sybase Adaptive Server (SQL database) free for Linux

[Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>]

  Peter>  This is actually old news but:
  Peter> http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayTC.pl?/reviews/981207ase1103.htm
  Peter> 
  Peter>  ``Sybase is letting Linux users run Sybase Adaptive Server
  Peter> Enterprise (ASE) 11.0.3 for Linux, for free.''
  Peter> 
  Peter> The article says that RedHat and Caldera are bundling it.  I don't
  Peter> use such things, but I wonder if Debian shouldn't try to bundle
  Peter> these apps too.

I installed it at work [ with a bit of tweaking, but mostly by simply using
alien ]. I also emailed wnpp@debian.org about it. 

We really should (re-)package it. But I don't know enough about Sybase to do
this. Volunteers, please step forward.

Dirk

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                                             -- The Economist, Oct 3, 1998