Re: Will Oracle be Dropping OCI ??

From: Mark Everhart <nwa_at_isd.com>
Date: 1997/05/17
Message-ID: <337e841f.0_at_news.isd.net>#1/1


Oracle does the bulk of their own programming in OCI rather than the klutzy PRO C interface. Most of their tools have been built with OCI and it is the reason that OCI tends to be a whole lot more stable and well behaved than PRO C. It would be shocking if they decided to drop it.

In article <5ll36v$sk7$1_at_dopey.magg.net>, unixuser_at_magg.net wrote:
>We are a government agency using Solaris 2.3 & 2.5.1, Oracle ranges from
>versions 7.1.16 to 7.3. Many of out C/C++ applications use oracle OCI rather
>than Pro C. We have heard rumors that oracle will drop oci in the future, our
>folks can not find out from oracle. Does anyone know the answer ??
>Thanks in advance,
>Rudi
>
Received on Sat May 17 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST

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