RE: ODBC and Macintosh

From: Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY) <Bruce.Reardon_at_comalco.riotinto.com.au>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 22:00:21 -0000
Message-Id: <10626.117616@fatcity.com>

Neil,

Not sure if this will be helpful but Oracle has just announced "the support and certification of the Apple Macintosh client for Oracle Applications 11i".

A quick scan of the release notes suggests that it is using Java on the Mac to access Oracle.

See the link on Metalink:
http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_datab ase_id=NEW&p_id=1186779.999

Hope this is of some help / interest.

Regards,
Bruce Reardon
mailto:bruce.reardon_at_comalco.riotinto.com.au

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From: dgoulet_at_vicr.com [mailto:dgoulet_at_vicr.com] Sent: Friday, 22 September 2000 0:47
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re:OCDB

Neil,

Some months ago, possibly a year by now, Oracle issued a general desupport
notice for the entire Apple/MAC product line. That generally means that there
is no support for anything thereafter. I fear that ODBC will not be your savior
either since you still need to be able to connect to the database via SQL*Net/NET8 which is not going to follow the OS. Your only path is to abandon
the MAC altogether or get into WEBDB and other associated WEB technologies so
that your client software is strictly a browser. I'm afraid that the reason for
this is the death of the MAC as a business computer system. I would guess that
you can blame MicroSoft for that, their latest versions of Word and Excel do not
run on MAC's & other third party vendors have followed suit. Seems that the MAC
is now only a niche item for graphics & some home users. At our organization
the population of MAC's dropped from a peak of 50 machines to one today & it's
days are numbered.

Dick Goulet.

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Author: "Neil MacDannald" <nmacdannald_at_sjdccd.cc.ca.us>
Date:       9/20/00 2:45 PM

Hello,
Does anyone out there use Macintosh computers? If so, what do you do about using Net8? We were told Oracle does not and will not support Net8 connections
via Macintosh O/S 9.

We now connect via Sql*Net version 2 when connecting Mac's to Oracle 8.1.6. but
are having problems with alias'es not surviving a reboot of the system. We have
to reset Oracle_Home after each reboot.

What will Oracle do for Macintosh O/S 10? Does anybody know? We do not want to
use ODBC unless nothing else is available.

Neil MacDannald, Database Analyst
San Joaquin Delta College, Information Services Voice: (209)954-5300, Fax: (209)954-5600 email: nmacdannald_at_sjdccd.cc.ca.us
Web Page: http://www.deltacollege.org/emp/nmacdannald
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does anyone out there use Macintosh
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We now connect via Sql*Net version 2 when
connecting Mac's to Oracle 8.1.6.  but are having problems with alias'es
not surviving a reboot of the system.  We have to reset Oracle_Home after
each reboot.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What will Oracle do for Macintosh O/S 10? 

Does anybody know?  We do not want to use ODBC unless nothing else is available.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Neil MacDannald, Database Analyst<BR>San
Joaquin
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