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Oracle on Linux

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

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

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