Oracle on Linux

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The Good News

OCCI client for gcc 3.2.3 now available (10g) Officially supported on RedHat Linux AS 3.0 & Suse Linux ES 8.0 ‘Tried’ with LCG Conditions DB Application on RH7

Oracle now has procedure in place to rebuild client libraries rapidly

This is not a guarantee that it will happen automatically…

Oracle 10g ‘Instant Client’ RPM kits – currently runtime only - will be extended to include ‘client developer’ kit

Will be made available in EXPORT area in CERN /afs tree Also from OTN (not recommended)

Extensive testing of 10g clients with 9i servers still to be done However, this is supported and not expected to be an issue

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Outlook

CERN has revitalised its contacts with Oracle since ~1999

New technical contact for CERN will start in June

Regular ‘CERN-Oracle’ Summits: next foreseen for June/July

Many features in Oracle 10g come from these interactions ULDB, native floats, silent install improvements, …

We will continue to stress the need for timely adoption of new compilers

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3rd Party Products

IT-DB does not provide support for e.g. Tora, perl-DBD-Oracle

This does not mean that these tools cannot, or are not (be) used