Greeting,

We have a project which  will embed a database and use perl to access it.

The requirements are as the follow:
    1. the  program will be implemented in both NT 4.0 and UNIX (Solaris 2.5
for now)
    2. using a  small/inexpensive relational database  which must have ODBC
driver for
    both platform

My questions  are:
    1. which database would you recommend? Currently, we are looking into
      Watcom  sql
    (Sybase sql anywhere). However, it seems there is no existing DBI or
ODBC perl
    implementation for this database. Is  this true? I also looked mySql,
but it  seems it does not run on NT.

    2.   Did any one  port perl ODBC module to UNIX? If there is none, how
long would you expect to do so, given a guy pretty good at ODBC and perl.

Thanks in advance

Li