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Jim Strehlow wrote:
>
> We need to know what products exist to enable a program on an OpenVMS Alpha
> computer to connect and query a Microsoft SQL Server running on Microsoft
> Windows NT.
>
> We have Oracle instances and Oracle OCI. Is OCI sufficient to accomplish the
> task?
>
> What is needed for the TCP/IP networking connection to Microsoft Windows NT?
> (e.g. just a simple change to TNSnames.ORA ?)
>
> Do we need a middleware product that has an OpenVMS and a Windows NT
> component to accomplish the task?
>
> Is it better to use an application API / RPC method or is it "better" to use
> some sort of self-developed TCP/IP messaging protocol?
>
> We would appreciate guidance through this discovery phase.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Jim Strehlow: jims_at_data911.com
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-- Cheers. +------------------pure personal oppinion-----------------------+ RADIUS Server for OpenVMS project - www.radiusvms.comReceived on Wed Sep 20 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT