Re: oracle odbc driver

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:51:10 +0530, Ramanand Kumar wrote:

> The otn.oracle.com has driver for windows only

Yup. Stupid of me. Only excuse I can come up with - I generally can't fathom anyone wanting to use ODBC on *nix, especially with the OCI being available. (Based on experience, attempting database independance is a waste of time, license $ and resources. See Thomas Kyte's "Effective Oracle By Design" Ch. 1-3 for a formal treatise on that.)

To answer your question properly - looking just a few screens over, in the Open Source area of OTN, was more productive - for example, it pointed to 'DbKit' and 'Data Workhorse' which are Source Forge projects.

> and moreover this is not freeware..

Not quite. The database is not freeware if used in production, but is freeware for either developer or trial license.

When I talked with Oracle a few years ago, they indicated that the ODBC drivers from the download area could be used *in production* at no extra charge - with a paid database license.

Disclaimer on that ... you need to verify that with Oracle sales yourself.

> Its a trial only version.

No, it isn't. It's the Developer license, not the Trial license - subtle difference. (Trials are limited to 30 days, you can get media and support.)

/Hans Received on Wed Mar 30 2005 - 06:38:25 CST