Re: Oracle Client Conflicts

Charles,

[Quoted] you are worried about dual homes for Oracle, but not for Windows?
If the client uses orawin diry, plus assuming this was the default, I suspect that is 16-bit software. Better check that, too (oracle.ini file would be a sure bet). If all is 32 bits, forget about the first remark.

As for 2 homes; it runs smoothly. Switch Homes utility switches defaults. As long as you set them specifically, no problem. I run 3 homes here (dev 4.5,
dev 6i/oracle 8i and iAS). No OO4O.
The only problem I can think of -but have no proof of- is the fact that some dll's may not support all of your environments. That being an OS problem does not help your customer, tho. I always managed to find some combination that did the job (I must add I'm bold now, and what's left is greyish... ;))

I suppose you have a test environment? Why not give it a shot?

--
Frank
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> To all,


>

> If you can point me to an archive search site that would help.  I've had

> problems with DejaNews ignoring forum I specify and giving me a bunch of

> irelevant stuff.

>

> We have a pretty serious problem we need to solve very fast (next week).

> We use the new version of the Oracle client that includes Oracle Objects

> for OLE as part of the distribution for our applications. The problem

> is, the customer has existing applications that use the old client that

> came with Oracle 7.3.3.   In one case, there are about 25 workstations

> that use the old client and the Oracle Developer/2000 (Forms 4.5/Reports

> x.x) client software that has to be installed in the orawin directory

> structure imposed by the Oracle client software. The Developer/2000

> application probably can't be upgraded to the newer version of its

> runtime without substantial re-writing.  Adding to the problem is the

> fact that we (our company) wrote both these applications. The

> Developer/2000 based application was originally done over 10 years ago

> and uses features that won't be supported in current versions according

> to Oracle. It was upgraded once to run on NT and use Forms 4.5.  We

> attempted to migrate the application to a later version the last time we

> worked on it, but had too many problems. We tried to get the customer to

> fund the migration to the later version of Developer/2000 but they

> wouldn't do it.

>

> Dual homes is the solution Oracle Corp recommends, but we are worried

> about side effects.  We are sceptical of what might happen when the user

> tries to run both apps at the same.  If switching homes swaps registry

> entries around, what are the repercussions of this?

>

> Anyway, we are looking for solutions to this problem.  I have a list of

> bad ideas but they all are costly.  The workstations are all Windows 98

> or NT 4.0.

>

> Chuck Goehring

>

>

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