[svlug] Middleware on Linux

[Rick Moen]

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> Sorry about reposting.  Is there anyone who has ever put Linux-version
> middle to commercial use?

Speaking for myself, I ignored your original question because it struck
me as vague[1] -- though I hoped someone else would be more on your
wavelength.  Since nobody did, though:

I used to work at a 4GL database firm, where our products worked with
just about every conceivable variety of what _we_ called middleware:
SequeLink, Oracle SQL*Net, sundry DAL and ODBC implementations, Sybase
OpenClient, and a lot of others that are slowly fading from memory after
about ten years of disuse.  The idea was that you had user-interface
(client) software running (generally) on workstations, large SQL
databases running on some sort of back-end host, and occasionally some
sort of front-end machine operating near to the SQL box.  Middleware was
required to implement a standard software interface that these pieces
could talk to.  (We also had home-grown "connect" pieces that could
sometimes allow bypassing of middleware, which were glorified parsers
and buffer software.)

But, of course, that may be nothing at all like what you _think_ you're
asking about.  Or, if it does happen to be what you're asking about
(which I doubt), you are probably interested only in options for some
very specific software situation.

Which you didn't bother to specify.

I could be wrong, but I would speculate that your question may have been
universally ignored because those of us who know something about
middleware also knew that answering a seeming poorly-thought-out
question would have wasted your time and ours.

[1] And, to be frank, because you posted that rather vague question
using Microsoft Outlook.

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