The Oracle ODBC driver story
From: Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:44:44 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <hus4ec$4v5$1_at_news.eternal-september.org>
What is the story with Oracle ODBC driver? Oracle is stubbornly shipping the driver that doesn't work with unixODBC shipped with the Red Hat distribution. I complained several times, never got any usable reply. The ODBC driver for Linux is still pretty much useless, unless you compile the newer version of unixODBC from the source. I will try getting it to work with iODBC driver manager, an alternative to unixODBC, but this is ridiculous. Even Red Hat acknowledged the problem but they are for some reason refusing to ship the new version of the driver.
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:44:44 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <hus4ec$4v5$1_at_news.eternal-september.org>
What is the story with Oracle ODBC driver? Oracle is stubbornly shipping the driver that doesn't work with unixODBC shipped with the Red Hat distribution. I complained several times, never got any usable reply. The ODBC driver for Linux is still pretty much useless, unless you compile the newer version of unixODBC from the source. I will try getting it to work with iODBC driver manager, an alternative to unixODBC, but this is ridiculous. Even Red Hat acknowledged the problem but they are for some reason refusing to ship the new version of the driver.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475615
Oracle is stubbornly shipping a non-functional driver. This is getting ridiculous. Don't they test their software? Maybe they have transcended the spiritual state in which they cared about the quality of their products and are quickly becoming a software equivalent of BP?
-- http://mgogala.byethost5.comReceived on Thu Jun 10 2010 - 20:44:44 CDT