Re: Proposed: Ghijk

[Charles Shannon Hendrix <shendrix escape widomaker com>]

In message <19980207154213.04425@inch.com>, Peter Norton writes:

> > > 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."

Not only that, but clients Oracle (or any other db) would be more likely
to be able to access a given database.  I could work from home a lot if
there were an Oracle client for Linux, but there isn't.