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To: dbi-users@perl.org, advocacy@perl.org From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@pobox.com> Subject: Oracle makes Perl a "first-class" citizen Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:42:13 +0100 It's shipping perl + DBI + DBD::Oracle + libwww + libnet + ... with Oracle9iAS: http://technet.oracle.com/products/ias/daily/oct04.html It's kind of old news in that they shipped some of this stuff in earlier releases, but it was fairly crippled. This time they seem to have gone further and be trumpeting it as significant value-add. Maybe the days of not mentioning the word 'perl' to Oracle tech support are passing. Tim. [Thanks to Ask for pointing this out] === To: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@pobox.com> From: Fernando Lozano <fsl@centroin.com.br> Subject: Re: Oracle makes Perl a "first-class" citizen Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 17:35:48 -0300 Hi Tim, > It's shipping perl + DBI + DBD::Oracle + libwww + libnet + ... with Oracle9iAS: > > http://technet.oracle.com/products/ias/daily/oct04.html > > It's kind of old news in that they shipped some of this stuff in > earlier releases, but it was fairly crippled. This time they seem > to have gone further and be trumpeting it as significant value-add. The news are even better, as Oracle droped most of it's own web technologies in favor op Free Software packages. Oracle9iAS is Apache + mod_perl + JServ + free libs, and they reengineered their PL/SQL stuff as a mod_plsql package for Apache. []s, Fernando Lozano ===