Re: ANNOUNCE: Microsoft Oracle ODBC Driver v2.0

I haven't heard that about the Oracle drivers. From what I have seen the Oracle 2.0 driver is pretty stable but slow. Intersolv has always been the standard for the ODBC industry but I have gotten mixed results with their drivers when using them with RDO and ADO. It will be interesting to see how Intersolv does in the OLE DB arena. I know they are working on their own query processor along with a slew of OLE DB providers. However it works out, the data access business is going to be very interesting over the next 6 to 8 months.

Jeff Ebert <jebert_at_wctc.net> wrote in article <3403994d.0_at_news2.kc.net>...
> I've just heard some interesting info on the Oracle ODBC drivers.
>
> First, the free ODBC drivers version 2.0.x from Oracle are so bad,
> Oracle ships their software with drivers from Intersolv. They won't
> even use their own drivers themselves.
>
> Second, Visigenic is getting out of the ODBc business. They will be
> buying their drivers from Intersolv.
>
> It looks to me like Intersolv will be thee primary ODBC vendor in the
> future. Of course, if you don't want to pay for support, you can
> always get the free drivers from MSFT a few months after release.
>
>
  Received on Sat Aug 30 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT