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This may be a silly question, but how does *nix systems speak to a remote
database without ODBC, like Windows?

As an example, PHP... I have Apache/PHP on one server, and the database on
another.  How does it do remote calls?

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company