Re: odbc drivers lite

There are 'wire protocol' ODBC drivers available that do not need Oracle Client Software installed and can be even faster than 'native' connections..
See:
http://www.datadirect-technologies.com/products/odbc/odbcindex.asp

( They were at one time known as the Merant drivers)

( Note: I am not now, nor have I ever been, an employee of this company..just a satisfied user ( on a Solaris client)

john.kos_at_easysoft.com (John Kos) wrote:

>matt_hallam_at_hotmail.com (Matthew Hallam) wrote in message news:<b0b53d87.0303250232.6c541eeb_at_posting.google.com>...
>> We are trying to deploy an application to quite a few Windows 2000
>> clients.. all it needs is an ODBC connection to the backend Oracle 9i
>> database. Currently the only way to install the Oracle ODBC drivers is
>> to install about 300Mb worth of Oracle Client software - I was
>> wondering if anyone knew of a "lighter" way to do this.. ie just being
>> able to install the drivers and its dependant Sql Net (the Oracle
>> installer seems to insist on many more dependencies, hence the bulk)
>>
>> thanks
>> Matt
>
>
>You could use the Easysoft XML-ODBC Server which require no client
>side install if you are writing your own application. Or the Easysoft
>ODBC-ODBC Bridge if the client application is already has ODBC
>support. This requires a client side install but nothing like 300 MB
>
>Details of both on www.easysoft.com
>
>Kind regards
>
>John Kos

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