Microsoft and Oracle announced
on Thursday that they will take steps to provide greater integration between the
popular database and the MS development suite. This will take place in the form
of a free download later this year for Visual Studio .Net
Oracle joins Microsoft developer program
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Isn’t this at odds with MS SQL Server?
Simple point lost on Oracle for years…most machines and/or services connect via Microsoft OS’s or software DUH! Oracle has never had a decent development tool to create interfaces to their database. Make it easyier to develope interfaces via the excellent MS Visual Studio IDE and guess what they just might sell more copies of Oracle.
“Simple point lost on Oracle for years…most machines and/or services connect via Microsoft OS’s or software DUH! Oracle has never had a decent development tool to create interfaces to their database. Make it easyier to develope interfaces via the excellent MS Visual Studio IDE and guess what they just might sell more copies of Oracle.”
what do you mean most machines connect to MS OS?
thats simply wrong
Most Oracle clients that connect to an Oracle database are Windows machines. This is because at least 90% of your corporate desktops are Windows machines, and most of the larger corporations have Oracle clients installed (usually 8.1.7).
Oracle, as per experience, is brutal to develop for under Microsoft Visual Studio because Microsoft’s ODBC drivers for them aren’t fully functional, and Oracle’s have a less than stable reputation.
The ODP.NET .NET Managed Data Provide for Visual Studio were a good first step, and this is more than likely version 2 of this. Now that the 9.2 client is finally getting deployed at places, this is a good thing. They have more (and better multithreading) data functionality in their provider than Microsoft has with their own
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“Most Oracle clients that connect to an Oracle database are Windows machines. This is because at least 90% of your corporate desktops are Windows machines, and most of the larger corporations have Oracle clients installed (usually 8.1.7).
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not at all. a lot of corporate machines are unix machines. they run solaris in sparc or linux with intel. all of oracle’s development is on linux. the primary focus of oracle has always been unix based. windows client do not dominate the typical corporate server. if that was true, it would be mssql rather than oracle
not at all. a lot of corporate machines are unix machines. they run solaris in sparc or linux with intel. all of oracle’s development is on linux. the primary focus of oracle has always been unix based. windows client do not dominate the typical corporate server. if that was true, it would be mssql rather than oracle
Obviously you have never worked in a corporate environment where Oracle is used. read mbparks post again becasue it is the reality of most Oracle deployments in the client server arena.