Re: Non-SQL*net api solution?

In article <4eui8i$pkl$1_at_mhade.production.compuserve.com>, Jay Ramadorai <103422.1467_at_CompuServe.COM> says:
>
>Are there any api products out there that allow clients to
>interact with an Oracle server on a Unix box without the use of
>SQL*Net. What about Oracle OCI? The solution I'm looking for will
>allow client programmers to code their data requests (perhaps in
>C or C++) in a generic database-independent way using an
>api-interface that will do the conversions, row-fetching, column
>delimiting, sqlca capture, etc that ODBC or OO40 or Oracle*Glue
>would do along with SQL*NET? I do not mind any level of
>complication on the server side.
>Basically, I don't want to have to install SQL*NET and ORACLE's
>TCP/IP adapter on the client. Given a pc, a wire and TCP/IP what
>is the (additional) minimum I need to have and do to talk to my
>Solaris Oracle7?
>Thanks
>Jay Ramadorai
>Software Builders
>103422,1467_at_CompuServe.com
>
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>Jay Ramadorai
>Software Builders
>103422.1467_at_CompuServe.com

Hi Jay,

My company provides a product called SimbaExpress. (here's the sales blurb) It provides ready-to-run ODBC access to Oracle (and other databases) w/o having to install SQL*net on every desktop. We use a standard tcp/ip stack that connects our thin client to an ODBC driver on the Unix server. Should save you some hassles from having to install, configure, and maintain SQL*net.

HTH, Randy Woo
Simba Technologies
www.simbatech.com Received on Tue Feb 06 1996 - 00:00:00 CET