Re: Oracle Client Conflicts

[Quoted] Thanks for the input.

All apps are 32-bit. Haven't seen exactly what the home switcher utility does. Somone else has been doing the dual homes stuff. The most disturbing thing, besides labor cost, is that the support folks told us it wasn't safe to run apps [Quoted] from two homes at the same time. If the registry is changed by the "switcher" and the apps read the registry at times other than the initial startup, I would expect problems. I don't know how all this works internally. The two apps are [Quoted] inventory and a set of financial programs. They need to be able to run at the same time without crashing or corrupting the data. If we end up having to wipe and re-install 25 workstations and then we find additional problems, our customer won't be happy. The home for the 8i stuff is currently installed on a LAN drive. So, even re-installing the 25 is something we did not bid.

Thanks
Chuck

Frank wrote:

> Charles,
>
> 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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> >
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> > 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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