From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 22 7:32:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.perceptionpub.com (ns1.perceptionpub.com [208.218.82.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ED2715023 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 07:32:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhummel@ppgweb.com) Received: from NS.PERCEPTIONPUB.COM ([208.218.82.2]) by ns.perceptionpub.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA44C for ; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 10:27:59 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 10:27:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Dave Hummel X-Sender: dhummel@NS1.PERCEPTIONPUB.COM To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Oracle DBD (or how to connect to Oracle Database) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm sure this problem is shared by many: We want to run more (all?) of our webservers on FreeBSD but we _must_ be able to connect to an Oracle Database (on Solaris) with mod_perl. Has anyone been able to get DBD::Ora going? The best solution would be DBD::Ora compiled/distributed in such a way that the webserver need not have Oracle installed on it. I intend to pursue this, but I'm wondering if someone more clever than me has done it already. Or is there another solution entirely? Ideas anyone? Thanks, Dave p.s. - The fact that Oracle doesn't support FreeBSD is reason enough in my eyes to refrain from using their product (c'mon, at least make client libs available). I feel like I should support opensource and FreeBSD-friendly companies like MySQL, but this does me no good for sites currently running Oracle. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message