alternative to DBD::Oracle that does not use OCI?

[Joseph Bruni]

Hello all,
Although DBI is great, is there some other sort of DBD module that can 
connect to an Oracle database without needing to install Oracle's pile 
of steaming code? I'd like something considerably lighter weight than 
the 250MB client. Surely there must be some sort of reverse-engineered 
Oracle client?

Thanks
Joe