Hey All, I am facing this situation where I have coded a Perl framework on Windows and its all working fine. The framework mostly uses DBI and ODBC module to connect to both Oracle server, execute SQL queries, fetch Rows etc etc.
Now the customer wants to use the framework on a Solaris machine (it has Perl installed - 5.8.4). However that Solaris machine doesn't have DBI module as a result of which I can't use my framework. But it has Oracle client installed using which (sqlplus, sqlldr etc) I am able to connect to the Oracle DB Server (located remotely) The best solution here seems to get the DBI module installed using Sun Support. Does Sun provide support for Perl modules (particulary DBI) on its own OS - Solaris? Customer doesn't want to install anything third party that didn't come pre-installed with Solaris box. However he may give a thought to installing new version of standalone Perl which will have DBI module integrated. I guess Perl 5.10.1 has DBI present by default. Could someone please confirm. In addition to DBI do I need any other module to connect to Oracle DB from a Solaris machine? Is there any other way I can convince the client that Perl is good OpenSource tool and certainly not a malacious software. Also more solutions to install DBI module on Solaris are most wellcome. Cheers, Parag
