[Zope-DB] Interested in continued Oracle support in Zope?

Charlie Clark charlie at egenix.com
Thu Aug 26 13:13:49 EDT 2004


On 2004-08-26 at 17:16:36 [+0200], M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> Dario Lopez-Kästen wrote:
> > If it just was about the money, i think it would be no problems, but
> > spending almost 4000 dollars (including licenses for mxODBC) and STILL
> > having to rely on the non-commercial platform that is unixODBC, sort of
> > negates the whole point of spending money on commercially supported
> > software.
> 
> unixODBC happens to be an ODBC manager that is maintained and supported
> by EasySoft - I doubt that you can get better support for it from
> anyone else (in fact, it comes with the Oracle driver).
> 
> If you are interested in bypassing unixODBC and talking to the
> EasySoft driver directly, we can also provide with such a setup.
> 
> We currently require iODBC or unixODBC installed on the *nix machine
> just to make configuration easier on the user. mxODBC itself does
> work directly with most ODBC drivers (in fact, EasySoft advertises
> this setup on their web-site). You don't really need the
> extra layer of an ODBC manager, but it makes things easier to
> administer and maintain.

Ich komme mich immer so doof vor, wenn ich zuerst mit meinem halbwissen 
zögerlich was schreibe und dann du kommst mit der richtigen Erklärung!

Wie würden die dieses dann machen? Ist dies mit dem "DriverConnect" Method? 
Ist es eine Option von der mxODBCZopeDA?

Charlie


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