Re: Developing for Oracle on different OS

Speaking strictly from an Oracle standpoint, there aren't any problems. Oracle is designed to be portable between OS's. If the application runs against an Oracle database running on Solaris, then it will run just as well against an application running against an Oracle database running on NT, AIX, Linux, or Novell, etc. Once the application makes the connection to the database, it shouldn't care what platform that database is running on.

But as you may have gleamed from the other responses, it can make a big difference which platform the application runs on. For instance, if I develop the application using Visual Basic to run on WinTel, then I may have lots of problems trying to port that app to a Unix platform.

HTH,
Brian

audunj_at_my-deja.com wrote:
>
> Hi
> I'm new in a company developing software for external users, and have
> a "newbie"-question:
> 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?
> Are there other things we should take into consideration developing a
> database on one platform and deploying it on another or on different
> versions?
>
> Thanks for any thoughts!
>
> AJ
>
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