Re: Oracle client ?


Subject: Re: Oracle client ?
From: Pascal Robert (pascal@team.inter.net)
Date: Thu Aug 31 2000 - 10:15:04 MDT


"Paul J. Lucas" wrote:
>
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Pascal Robert wrote:
>
> > I need access to an Oracle7 database, I'm using Perl-DBI to connect to
> > it but the CPAN module for Oracle (BDB::Oracle) need the Oracle7 client
> > on my side, and I don't find them for Yellow Dog (or any Linux on PPC)
> > Does one of you know a work-around ?
>
> If you can't find them (and I seriously doubt you will), there
> is no work-around: you need PPC binary code and the only way to
> get that is having the source code (which is Oracle
> proprietary) or Oracle decided to have a port for PPC
> (unlikely). If there is such a port, Oracle would know about
> it: ask them directly. They'd be happy to sell it to you.

I know, but I wondered that maybe someone did a "clone" of the necessary
stuff to connect to Oracle without the official stuff, it seems that
it's not the case :-/



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