[Gllug] perl querying SQL server 7

[John Hearns]

Jim Bailey wrote:

>
> On Wednesday, August 22, 2001, at 04:47 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
>
>>
>> An alternative to an ODBC interface and one that that would let you do
>> more intelligent variations of that scam is ODBCSocketServer
>> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/odbc/).  You run the SocketServer on 
>> the
>> SQL Server box and communicate with it in XML over IP.  So all you need
>> to be able to do is parse XML.
>>
> A good solution apparently but the clients SA is a MC$E and after just 
> spending 20 hours hardening his box  (ooh errrr ;-)) he will not allow 
> us to use anything on it but official M$ products they are secure you 
> see ;-P 

Really?

Here's a good article I got referenced in a SANS newsletter:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2792860,00.html

[Editor's (Paller) Note: When a highly reputable organization like
eWeek labs provides strong evidence of the security superiority of
Apache over IIS, Microsoft is put in an awkward position. If Microsoft
cannot prove that its Internet software is at least as safe as the
more widely used Apache, users may be pressured to move to Apache
out of concern for potential negligence claims.]




By the way, everyone should have a look at page 2 of the Guardian Online 
today.
But make sure to be sitting down with a strong coffee first.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,540894,00.html

"Rivals among the developer community, such as the Linux operating 
system, have lost momentum. "


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