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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 14:44:05 -0800
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From: "Jesse, Rich" <Rich.Jesse@qtiworld.com>
Subject: RE: shared tnsnames.ora 
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With Oracle, you MUST run OID for LDAP.  There is no other supported LDAP,
and since OID doesn't generate v3-compatible LDIFs, the Oracle schemas in
OID are not easily ported to a non-supported LDAP (like SunOne).

Oracle says "Sure!  We support any v3-compliant LDAP!"  Not really.  They
support a *gateway* from other LDAPs to OID (and perhaps vice versa), but
Oracle only supports their software talking to OID.

Which is horse hockey!  First of all, ONames is stable and reliable -- even
on 8.0.5.  Second, it is relatively easy to install it fault-tolerant --
create another ONames server on a separate box that hits your region DB (OID
9.0.1 does not correctly multi-master replicate on Linux).  Third, it is
included in the cost of the DB.  OID is none of those (I believe OID is only
included with 9iAS).

Oracle Corp:  If you want us to use OID, comply with the above three points.

After a CPU fried on our ERP system today, I'm off in search of good beer!

Rich

Rich Jesse                        System/Database Administrator
rich.jesse@qtiworld.com           Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA

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Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 3:49 PM
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John - Here is a white paper on Oracle's site. I keep seeing where Oracle is
encouraging people to switch to LDAP and that Names will eventually go away,
and that has discouraged me from going the Names route. Maybe that will
never occur and 10 years from now Names will be going strong. Of course,
when I talk to our network people they say that we are going LDAP but they
are still trying to chose which one :-)
 
http://otn.oracle.com/products/oid/htdocs/namesmigration.html
<http://otn.oracle.com/products/oid/htdocs/namesmigration.html> 
 

Dennis Williams 
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