1. Oracle on Linux

2. Database and Application Services The Good News  OCCI client for gcc 3.2.3 now available (10g)  Officially supported on RedHat Linux AS 3.0 & Suse Linux ES 8.0  ‘Tried’ with LCG Conditions DB Application on RH7  Oracle now has procedure in place to rebuild client libraries rapidly  This is not a guarantee that it will happen automatically…  Oracle 10g ‘Instant Client’ RPM kits – currently runtime only - will be extended to include ‘client developer’ kit  Will be made available in EXPORT area in CERN /afs tree  Also from OTN (not recommended)  Extensive testing of 10g clients with 9i servers still to be done  However, this is supported and not expected to be an issue

3. Database and Application Services Outlook  CERN has revitalised its contacts with Oracle since ~1999  New technical contact for CERN will start in June  Regular ‘CERN-Oracle’ Summits: next foreseen for June/July  Many features in Oracle 10g come from these interactions  ULDB, native floats, silent install improvements, …  We will continue to stress the need for timely adoption of new compilers

4. Database and Application Services 3 rd Party Products  IT-DB does not provide support for e.g. Tora, perl-DBD-Oracle  This does not mean that these tools cannot, or are not (be) used