Connect to Oracle 8/NT from MacOS client

Hi,

This is really all too embarrasing to ask, but then, we're desperate:

We're a Mac based design company and want to store graphical design data in the Oracle database from MacOS clients.

So we asked the sales and support people at Oracle whether this works and finally were told, that "YES" ist would work and we would just need to install this or that driver on the Mac. Being told that, we went ahead and bought a 10 user license of Oracle 8/NT.

We got the Oracle 8 CD and there is nothing but NT driver stuff on that. No Mac support at all.

We have installed Oracle 8/NT successfully. We have installed a test client configuration on an old PC running Win 95. We can connect to the server from that machine.

We are currently not able to connect to the database server from our Mac's though.

Has anybody in this group hints on how to proceed and what alternatives we have to develop client software for the database on Mac's? We've got all tools for C++ programming and have the know how as well, but this is our first database project.

Do we have to use ODBC? How is ODBC's performance? Could we connect to the server using a TCP/IP connection and "talk clear text" to it by sending SQL statements and the interpret the data that is sent back to us? Could we use the Oracle Web interface as a base for that?

Clueless remains
Jörg Received on Wed Oct 14 1998 - 23:35:52 CDT