9iAS is not a requirement of OID. We didn't have it in our replicated OID test and the Oracle sales peoples assured us that the licensing of OID could be separated from 9iAS.
Of course, the crashes and imcompatibilites with existing LDAP, etc. told us to run away to SunOne and leave our DB to ONAMES... Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA > -----Original Message----- > From: Gogala, Mladen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 2:42 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: Oracle Names > > > Oracle names is actually a very stable software and it works > very nice. > I have very good experience with that product. As for LDAP, > it's huge, > incompatible, hard to administer and you must have 9iAS. It > doesn't work > with > iPlanet, weblogic or websphere.It's a proprietary LDAP if > such thing exists. > The other thing that would be even simpler is hostnaming. > Name your database > > same as the host (service_names and global_dbname in > listener.ora), put it > on > the port 1521 and enjoy. > > Mladen Gogala -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jesse, Rich INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
