Proprietary Sybase DBI/DBD module

[Greg McCarroll]

On 31 Oct 2012, at 20:40, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote:

> 
> On 31 Oct 2012, at 20:00, Joel Bernstein <joel at fysh.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Not to be snarky but the answer here seems to be "yes, and what's your point?"
> 
> Companies that make you buy their software (limited, free, 
> development version notwithstanding, limiting the *client*
> systems you use out of what, fear that you might use their
> software more widely?
> 

But do consider, loss of brand value/reputation as they can't properly test the client on every platform and one of their brand components is stability/reliability?

And I suspect most people deploying Sybase are going to tailor the OS/distro around it.

G.