Anyone querying Oracle from a Linux box

Got some Oracle DBs on Solaris, and one on NT. I'd like to query them from a Linux box. I am currently rsh'ing to Solaris and running the queries that way, but in this changing environment this is too fragile.

Do I have to wait for Oracle 8 on Linux, or is there some other method of connection? (Perl on Linux seems to require something that's not there, same for Java)

Thanks,
George.

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