We have an oracle system running (or soon to be running) on a variety
of platforms, including vax/vms, apollo/domain, dec/ultrix, sun/os and
hp/sux. Now I have to get it (or at least the sql*net portion) running
on sco/xenix. This is complicated by the fact that our ip package for
xenix is homebrew, and we can't use the asynch lines.
Oracle seems to share my opinion of Xenix and our homebrew ip; however,
I still have to deal with it.
Does anybody have any hard data on the sql*net protocol? I can sit
down with a network analyzer, but I'd rather not. I plan on using our
rpc package as the transport, but am not committed. I'd be grateful
for any information anybody has relating to this.
My sql*net manual says, "The SQL*Net software is designed to be
easily ported to a variety of hosts" and "Oracle Corp. also plans to
support customers who want to develop custom protocols that will work
with SQL*Net."
Can anybody point me in the right direction on how to follow up on
these statements? The oracle support people in our own computer
division (CERN staff, not Oracle staff) are of no use: their solution
to any problem is to advise we dump whatever hardware we are using
and buy Suns instead.
