Re:OCDB

From: <dgoulet_at_vicr.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 08:39:25 -0400
Message-Id: <10626.117556@fatcity.com>

Neil,

Some months ago, possibly a year by now, Oracle issued a general desupport notice for the entire Apple/MAC product line. That generally means that there is no support for anything thereafter. I fear that ODBC will not be your savior either since you still need to be able to connect to the database via SQL*Net/NET8 which is not going to follow the OS. Your only path is to abandon the MAC altogether or get into WEBDB and other associated WEB technologies so that your client software is strictly a browser. I'm afraid that the reason for this is the death of the MAC as a business computer system. I would guess that you can blame MicroSoft for that, their latest versions of Word and Excel do not run on MAC's & other third party vendors have followed suit. Seems that the MAC is now only a niche item for graphics & some home users. At our organization the population of MAC's dropped from a peak of 50 machines to one today & it's days are numbered.

Dick Goulet.

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Subject: OCDB
Author: "Neil MacDannald" <nmacdannald_at_sjdccd.cc.ca.us> Date: 9/20/00 2:45 PM

Hello,
Does anyone out there use Macintosh computers? If so, what do you do about using Net8? We were told Oracle does not and will not support Net8 connections via Macintosh O/S 9.

We now connect via Sql*Net version 2 when connecting Mac's to Oracle 8.1.6. but are having problems with alias'es not surviving a reboot of the system. We have to reset Oracle_Home after each reboot.

What will Oracle do for Macintosh O/S 10? Does anybody know? We do not want to use ODBC unless nothing else is available.

Neil MacDannald, Database Analyst
San Joaquin Delta College, Information Services Voice: (209)954-5300, Fax: (209)954-5600 email: nmacdannald_at_sjdccd.cc.ca.us
Web Page: http://www.deltacollege.org/emp/nmacdannald
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computers?  If so, what do you do about using Net8?  We were told Oracle does not and will not support Net8 connections via Macintosh O/S 9.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We now connect via Sql*Net version 2 when
connecting Mac's to Oracle 8.1.6.  but are having problems with alias'es not surviving a reboot of the system.  We have to reset Oracle_Home after each reboot.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What will Oracle do for Macintosh O/S 10? 
Does anybody know?  We do not want to use ODBC unless nothing else is available.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Neil MacDannald, Database Analyst<BR>San Joaquin
Delta College, Information Services<BR>Voice: (209)954-5300, Fax: (209)954-5600<BR>email: <A
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