Re: Oracle Client Conflicts

Charles Goehring wrote:

> 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
> from two homes at the same time.

I never gave that reassurance either - somedat it will fail, and you are to blame for having given the assurance that it would work - always - everywhere...

> 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
> inventory and a set of financial programs.

Oracle apps? Do these apps read the registry? Check with regmon, a free utility from sysinternals.com

> 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
>

<snip>

--
Gtrz,

Frank van Bortel