Re: Oracle ODBC drivers Thread-Safe?

From: Jim Kennedy <kennedy-downwithspammersfamily_at_attbi.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 07:14:42 GMT
Message-ID: <BRIjc.1754$Rd4.430653@attbi_s51>

"Reinhard Brandstaedter" <reinhard.brandstaedter_at_ams-engineering.com> wrote in message news:c6nl2j$22t3$1_at_ulysses.news.tiscali.de...
> Niall Litchfield wrote:
>
> > Testing is all very well and I'd recommend it, but I guess my point was
what
> > happens if you need support from this vendor and they state - you are
> > running on Oracle: we don't support that platform/those drivers and we
told
> > you so?
>
> Fortunately the database is not that critical and easily created. If we
> encounter problems during our test phase with oracle we can still switch
> to the well supported MS SQL Server. It's an recommendation by the
> vendor based on experiences with Oracle 8i and they haven't tried any
> other versions/drivers since then.
>
> Reinhard

In reading the thread I suspect that the vendor has some deal with MS and is only using Oracle as an "accommodation" and they would really not support it. Vendors often rely on such FUD to steer clients in a certain direction. Jim Received on Wed Apr 28 2004 - 02:14:42 CDT