Re: Developing for Oracle on different OS

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 21:53:35 GMT, audunj_at_my-deja.com wrote:

>If we develop our software using Oracle on NT/2000, are there any
>pitfalls in implementing the software with a customer running Oracle on
>say Solaris?

If you can crack the performance problems in NT, then Solaris will be a breeze!

>Are there other things we should take into consideration developing a
>database on one platform and deploying it on another or on different
>versions?
>

Use standard C library functions, avoid like the plague NT specifics. If you need some functionality that absolutely requires NT code, then wrap it in a caller function and be prepared to just re-develop the specific code when moving to another platform.

Fairly standard software engineering principles, really. As to ORACLE specific interface being different between NT and UNIX, do NOT worry about that: it's the same, all the way through to mainframes!

Cheers
Nuno Souto
nsouto_at_bigpond.net.au.nospam
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den/index.html Received on Thu Nov 16 2000 - 03:23:34 CST