Hi Francisco and Bambi,
I am aware of the other vendors. My concern really has to do with cost.
Some vendors want to charge $100 per seat. That could add up quickly into
the hundred of thousands. I also realize that these vendors may also give
discounts.
I am really looking for other solutions, such as changing our applications
to use Oracle Objects for OLE or some other means. I am also looking for
into a three-tiered approach to minimize seat liscensing. Have you or any
one else looked at this.
There is one more level of complication to all of this. 99% of our
workstations are Windows 3.1. I expect we will move to Window's 95 before
the end of the year. Thus, we may be looking at a Window's 95 solution.
Thanks for your comments ...................Mark
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Sent by:Francisco Franco
Hi Bambi and Mark,
As one who has just gone through this with Oracle, I tend to agree with
Bambi. Oracle will not cut support for ODBC, but on the other hand they
do make it very easy not to Oracle for support on the product. When
talking
to our sales rep, she quoted me a support cost for ODBC of about 10 times
the product cost of ODBC. She did not say that they wouldn't support it,
they just made it cost so much that it didn't make sence to go ahead and
get the product from Oracle. Actually, uur sales rep more or less told
us that we should probably contact Intersolv directly rather than going
through Oracle.
That's what we are doing. If you have access to Microsoft's WWW page,
they have a document at their site that lists a lot of ODBC vendors, their
specialty and how to contact them for more information on their products.
I don't remember the name of the WWW page, but if you use their search
tool, I'm sure that it will find that document for you. That same
document
can also be accessed through their FAXBACK number.
At 11:56 AM 18/01/96 EST, you wrote:
Mark --
In a case like this, it sounds like a timing issue (Oracle's cutting
off support before your vendor comes up to speed), and you are likely
not to be the only one in a bind. If I were you, I'd call Oracle,
explain the situation to them, and ask them if they'd support you in
your environment until the other vendor certified their release on
the latest technology. Oracle is reasonable (especially if you're
a "good customer" or the number of customers is "sufficient", and,
no I don't know the definitions of either of those terms).
HTH.
Bambi.
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As most of you may be aware, Oracle is dropping support of their ODBC
product. Also, I believe support for SQL*NET V1 will no loger be supported
by Oracle after June of this year. Lastly, to move to Oracle 7.3, you must
be on SQL*NET V2. This may not be a problem for your organization, but it
is for us.
Francisco Franco Aerocomp Consulting Inc
Systems Administrator/Oracle DBA 2555 Thomas St, Unit #8
ffranco_at_interlog.com Mississauga, Ont
Tel: (905) 813-7148 L5M 5P6
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