Connect XE for ODBC Driver for Salesforce CRM and Force.com is now available!

http://web.datadirect.com/download.html#connect

Read the Release Highlights: http://www.datadirect.com/products/odbc/salesforce_crm_odbc_driver/index.html

-Standards-based ODBC access to Salesforce CRM and Force.com
-Low latency, high throughput, resource efficient data access
-Out of box ready for enterprise requirements
-Native cross-platform support

Anyone using the ODBC drivers from Datadirect?

http://www.datadirect.com/index.ssp

We use java and soql api to connect. We are also looking for a solution to connect using access / excel (other than queryamp - which we really like.) 

I was able to do some pretty complex queries with the odbc driver that cannot be done easily via SOQL.  I was also able to update fields to null.

Looking for feedback / limitations.