title: Options to Replicate Microsoft SQL Server Database to MySQL/PostgreSQL on Linux
body: <p>I need to replicate data from Microsoft SQL Server to MySQL or PostgreSQL.  The data includes images stored in BLOB columns.</p>
  
  <p>Could you please comment on your experiences with the following strategies and suggest others I may have missing?</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>custom script written in Java using JDBC</li>
  <li>linux odbc driver with perl script</li>
  <li>Setup my own windows box and use SSIS or DTS w/Postgres ODBC driver</li>
  <li>write .net program and schedule execution on Windows machine</li>
  <li>FreeTDS</li>
  </ol>