Re: Proposed: Ghijk

[Peter Norton <spacey inch com>]

> > better to use CORBA in this project as well. In this case you would
> 
> CORBA would in no way garantee a good conversion, which seems to have
> been your point.  

True - creating a good object model that allows programmers to
codify and enforce basic differences between the databases would have.

Anyway, the reason to use CORBA is that it would allow over-the-wire
database accesses without any vendor-specific hacks.

No more "is ORACLE_SID set?  is TWO_TASK set?  Is ORACLE_BASE set?  Is
ORACLE_HOME set?  Is the sqlnet listener working?  Are you going base a
filtering firewall or accross the internet?  Oh you are?  Well, since
no-one knows how the oracle sqlnet connection happens, and they haven't
bothered fixing this in the last 3 years, either disable your firewall, or
you're out of luck."

-Peter