Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle From: roeber@vscrna.cern.ch (Frederick Roeber) Subject: Re: Anyone heard of Oracle opening up an API into Oracle7? Message-ID: <1994May28.151459.1@vscrna.cern.ch> Sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System) Reply-To: roeber@cern.ch Organization: CERN -- European Organization for Nuclear Research References: Distribution: usa Date: Sat, 28 May 1994 14:14:59 GMT Lines: 21 In article , jmrunr@iscp.bellcore.com (Jim Mihalakis) writes: > Has anyone heard of any existing internal Oracle API into their Oracle7 > RDBMS that they will open up for external use? I know about their OCI > (Oracle Call Interface) and that is not what I am referring to. This > was some sort of announcement in a magazine that I have since lost. You might be thinking of "Open Gateway." There are products which can make "other things" appear to be tables inside Oracle; usually these products are gateways to other vendors' databases. The interal Oracle Corp. teams who created these gateways came up with a common toolkit; apparently there was enough outside interest in this facility that they decided to polish up the toolkit a little and release it as a product. This was about the time O7 was coming out, and in the then-rage of "Open" products, it was called "Open Gateway." I was quite interested in it, but after the first few "It'll be out RSN"s, I lost interest. I don't know if it was ever released. -- Frederick. "Ontology recapitulates philology." -- Harry Quackenboss