Re: Zero Client front end to Oracle

Norman Dunbar wrote:

> Morning Niall,
>
> <BEGIN RANT>
>
> Windows is a pain for doing stuff like that. Have of a Windows install
> is dlls to support Microsoft compiler tools (ie run time libraries for
> VB, C, C++ ....) so that MS marketing can say 'our compiler produces
> much smaller code than Borland's does' for example, knowing full well
> that the MS app was compiled using runtime libraries and the Borland one
> was statically linked.
>
> Alternatively, when you distribute an app compiled using VC++ you only
> have to distribute x Mb of files, but with Borland you have to
> distribute x * y Mb. Again, all the bleeding dlls are already on the
> system just in case you ever install anything compiled with an MS tool.
>
> This marketing b*llsh*t really gets on my (* Y *)
> (some smilies are better than others !)
>
> <END RANT>
>
> Cheers,
> Norm.
>
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> Norman Dunbar
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Niall Litchfield [mailto:niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com]
> Posted At: Thursday, June 12, 2003 5:27 PM
> Posted To: server
> Conversation: Zero Client front end to Oracle
> Subject: Re: Zero Client front end to Oracle
>
> "Volker Hetzer" <volker.hetzer_at_ieee.org> wrote in message
> news:bc7khc$ul9$1_at_dackel.pdb.sbs.de...
> > Holger Baer wrote:
> > > Volker Hetzer wrote:
> <snip>
> > >> Would the ODBC client dll count as "nothing"?
> > >
> > > No. It would count as insufficient - if I'm not completely cooked
> > > (what with currently about 35°C and no air conditioning) the ODBC
> dll
> > > sits on top of the Oracle Client so you'll need that as well.
> > I always thought the db specific part sits on the server machine?
>
> No. The ODBC client (unless you are talking about the thin ones from
> Merant)
> require a database client on the clientside as well, for fairly obvious
> reasons. This tends to fool people from an MS Background as typically
> the
> SQLServer client libraries get installed as part of MDAC. ADO also
> requires
> a client but doesn't have the overhead of ODBC and OO4O also requires a
> client but is Oracle specific.
>
> --
> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
> Audit Commission UK
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Thanks for the rant. Facts are refreshing and deserve to see the light of day.

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