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The ODBCKit is an open source framework for Cocoa developers to leverage the
underlying Open Database Connectivity resources in the business network. Built
with the intent of providing an easy and approachable toolkit for Cocoa Developers,
it has evolved into a little bit more, also providing a simple graphical query tool
as well as a couple of Automator Actions to the provide user level access to the
ODBC databases
What this means in the real world is that using this toolkit, it should be
easier to write and maintain applications that have ready access to enterprise
level data sources like Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and others. Why is this a
big deal? well, one of the biggest concerns with the Mac platform is business
applications. If there is an easy way to create and maintain applications that
use the same enterprise database engines as their Windows counterparts, expanding
the Mac in to the world of big business and corporate development becomes just a little bit easier.
By making this open source, specifically under the BSD license model, the
toolkit is readily usable in both commercial and open source projects without
concern for the viral nature of some of the open source alternatives while
allowing users to guide the forward evolution of the project through both
suggestions and code contributions.
Though we do all of the development on this project under the auspices of Druware,
we have no commercial products built upon it that pay for it. If you find it useful,
make a contribution to the SourceForge.net ODBCKit project. All of those donations go
directly to the people writing the code and the maintenance.
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