Sybernet is a unix daemon (or application server) which holds connections to your Sybase or Oracle database on behalf of a stateless web client. You might look on it as CGI middleware.

Sybernet removes the requirement for developing CGI scripts in order to support dynamic HTML page development. Sybernet produces all pages from stored procedures and does not require static HTML files to be developed using perl (or any other scripting system). Because your web pages are created by stored procedures, you are creating web pages that execute faster because they were written in the native language for your database (Transact-SQL in Sybase or PL/SQL in Oracle). You probably know that stored procedures are compiled. That means the database does not have to interpret or precompile your SQL statements before executing them.

Anyone with stored procedure experience and modest HTML knowledge can develop live dynamic pages on their server.

Sybernet uses the Open Client Client-Library (Sybase) and OCI (Oracle) API's. That means Sybernet is using the fastest interface available to communicate with your database.

Sybernet was originally written for the MacOS and WebSTAR, and was then ported to Solaris and then to Linux. The latest version of Sybernet is itself a true HTTP web server. If you already have a web server, then the Sybernet CGI acts as an HTTP proxy between your web server and Sybernet.

Supported unix platforms include Mac OS X and Solaris. Supported database platforms include Sybase and Oracle. More information is available by clicking on the README file for Sybase and Oracle. Sybernet Documentation for Sybase and Oracle is also available that includes information on supplied procedures, software, and utilities.