Open letter to Guido van Rossum

[Dale Nagata]

> Dan Grassi wrote:
> >
> > Hi Guido,
> >
> > Well, I am rather ambivalent about 1.6.  See, I really like python and
> > want to use it at work, a dot-com --- in fact I would like it to be the
> > standard.  But I doubt that it will come to pass, there are to many
> > stumbling blocks.
> >
> > First and foremost is database support as a part of the languare
> > _package_!  In particulay I need Oracle on ix86, a not uncommon
database.
> >  But that is no trivial task.  Thus python fails because it can not be
> > used in a production environment that involves Oracle.
> >

What about using Digital Creation's DCOracle module?
It was originally built for *nix, but I hacked it to build with Visual C++
so now I have a version that runs on NT/W2K.

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Dale Nagata / Software Developer / CreoScitex
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