> performance with Oracle 10g than Oracle's own JDBC drivers?
>
> Will Oracle's own ADO.NET drivers provide better integration
> and performance with Oracle 10g than Oracle's JDBC drivers?
>
> Will Oracle's own ADO.NET drivers provide better integration
> and performance with Oracle 10g than DataDirect's JDBC drivers?
>
> Will DataDirect's ADO.NET drivers provide better integration
> and performance with Oracle 10g than Oracle's JDBC drivers?
>
> Will DataDirect's ADO.NET drivers provide better integration
> and performance with Oracle 10g than DataDirect's JDBC drivers?
>
> Hmmm...it appears to be a little more complicated that one
> might think at first blush. But, of course, it's easier to
> make clever quips about KoolAid than to think seriously
> through technical issues. ;-)
You can't have it both ways. You stated that an advantage of BlueDragon.NET
over CFMX on Windows was the fact that you're using a single vendor's
technology stack, providing superior integration. It seems obvious to me
that this advantage disappears when you integrate with other vendors'
products. Perhaps this is less obvious to you, or perhaps you're willing to
overlook logical inconsistencies in your sales pitch.
I would be greatly surprised if any ADO.NET providers for Oracle worked as
well as Oracle's own JDBC drivers, for several reasons. Oracle strongly
supports Java; they provide their own J2EE app server - one of the touted
benefits of Oracle AS is its tight integration with Oracle databases. Oracle
has much less incentive to ensure that ADO.NET works well with their
database products.
In addition, ADO.NET (and the entire .NET Framework) is quite a bit newer
than Java, so it would be understandable if it still had significant issues
to work through.
Microsoft, on the other hand, has a strong incentive to ensure that the
ADO.NET provider for SQL Server works very well, and perhaps less incentive
to ensure that JDBC works well (although I'm quite impressed with MS's own
JDBC driver for SQL Server, which seems much more reliable on average than
the DataDirect Connect for JDBC 3.3 driver).
So, to answer your questions above, here are my guesses: no, no, no, no, and
no.
I hope that's serious enough for you. I won't bother with a smiley, if
that's ok with you.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
phone: 202-797-5496
fax: 202-797-5444
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