Re: Oracle Client Conflicts

> The existing application uses the 7.3.3 Oracle client and the 4.5 forms.
> According to Oracle, nothing from 7.x is multi-home compliant. To further
> complicate things, the Oracle Objects for OLE must be in the first Home
> according to the Oracle Language group.

I've never used the OO4O, but I thought that it was always a separate download on technet and it existed for the older version of Oracle client installs too (ie. for oracle7 client directories) . Can you make use of one of those other OO4O install files and determine what it put where, then use your other client to install to a new multi-home aware directory for your new app?

> I've seen where people suggest taking
> the old client off and then putt the new client on first and then
 re-installing
> the old client.

I would think if you'd do that, you should specify a different directory than [driveletter]:\orant for your 8.1.5 client install.

> This is supposed to make the non-multi-home compliant stuff
> work. We need to deploy to 50 workstations right away - that's what makes
 it
> imperative that we get it right the first time. We knew we were dealing
 with
> multiple versions, but didn't discover these additional annoyances until
> recently..

Your lucky if you get any support from Oracle for deploying anything. I've worked with their stuff for 8+ years and they are PATHETIC in that area. That's probably why they went the route of the web - they could never figure out client/server deployment or version control. Received on Sun Oct 29 2000 - 18:58:27 CET