Re: Sybase Adaptive Server (SQL database) free for Linux

[Ward Deng <wdeng@KachinaTech.COM>]

>   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
> 

I am definitely interested in packaging since I am using it with Caldera
distribution. Very painful with RPM.

However, where is the contact point that I can get the origianl binaries?

--ward