Hi Robert,
It's cool that there will be an Oracle plug-in,
but bear in mind that an Oracle plug-in will still
require the purchase and maintenance of SQL*Net or
Net8/9 on each Mac --and you know how good vendors
are about keeping that stuff in-sync with their
Windows releases (complain and they'll just ask
you to switch to Java, which is also out of sync
with Windows, but at least can run on Windows
-sort of).
If you instead opt to use our free ODBC.NET
plug-in (available from
http://odbcRouter.com/m/odbcnet.sit), then you
only have to purchase our $349 server (for a
single Win2K box) and a _single_ copy of the
actual Windows version of SQL*Net or Net8/9. Our
server will then make that single instance
available to all of your REALbasicPro apps on
Mac OS, OS X and Windows. (Of course, you will
still need to respect any concurrent usage
restrictions of your ORACLE server licenses under
either strategy.) Aside from the actual savings,
you can keep everything in sync just by updating
that single instance of the vendor's actual
Windows drivers.
Best,
Tom at AugSoft
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 robpoll at mac dot com wrote:
> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 21:12:38 -0700
> From: robpoll at mac dot com
> Reply-To: REALbasic Network Users Group
> <realbasic-nug at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
> To: Geoff Perlman <geoff at realsoftware dot com>
> Cc: REALbasic NUG <realbasic-nug at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
> Subject: Re: Oracle plugins
>
> Hey Geoff,
>
> "We plan to release updated Oracle plug-ins to support Oracle 8i/9i and
> that
> will run on Mac OS X. They will most likely be released along with v5."
>
> And roughly how long will that be?
>
> Are we talking 6 months, a year?
>
> I plan on doing development on a very large scale commercial project.
> If it is a matter of months I can develop with the built in Real
> database and switch to Oracle when the plugins become available. It
> will take me a few months of learn/develop time to need the plugin.
>
> Also, are the plugins going to be cross platform? Can I use them on
> Windows when they come out for OS X or will the Windoze version be out
> later?
>
> Thanks for your response!
>
> Robert
>
> On Monday, July 29, 2002, at 10:21 AM, Geoff Perlman wrote:
>
> > On 7/28/02 8:07 PM, "robpoll at mac dot com" <robpoll at mac dot com> wrote:
> >
> >> I am curious if there will be any support or is there any way to
> >> connect
> >> to Oracle 8i/9i with RealBasic? I noticed the Oracle plugins are quite
> >> up to speed. Is there any plans to catch up?
> >
> > We plan to release updated Oracle plug-ins to support Oracle 8i/9i and
> > that
> > will run on Mac OS X. They will most likely be released along with v5.
> > --
> > Geoff Perlman
> > President and CEO
> > REAL Software, Inc.
> > 512-328-7325 x711 (voice)
> > 512-328-7372 (fax)
> >
>
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