Greetings,

JDBC support within Gentoo has been significantly improved.  The following 
packages have been added:

dev-java/jdbc-informix (Informix)
dev-java/jdbc-mssqlserver
dev-java/jdbc2-oracle
dev-java/jdbc2-postgres
dev-java/jdbc3-oracle
dev-java/jdbc3-postgres

All versions of PostgreSQL were added going back to 6.5.2, and Oracle from 
8.1.7 through 9.2.0.3.  All versions are slotted; thus you can have 
several versions on the machine at the same time.

DB2 support will be included as soon as IBM makes their JDBC drivers 
available somewhere.  If anyone at IBM is watching, please help.

I am naturally receptive to any submitted ebuilds for Sybase, Interbase, 
and other databases not mentioned here -- as I will not be working on them 
myself.

Feedback and bug reports are of course appreciated. 

Cheers,
Dylan Carlson

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