Re: Oracle client ?


Subject: Re: Oracle client ?
From: Paul J. Lucas (pjl@best.com)
Date: Thu Aug 31 2000 - 10:54:15 MDT


On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Pascal Robert wrote:

> "Paul J. Lucas" wrote:
> >
> > 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 :-/

        I suppose somebody with a lot of time on his hands could obtain
        an (illegal) copy of the header files and write code to match
        as well as reverse-engineer the protocol the client uses to
        connect to the server...not me, that's for sure.

        - Paul



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