From: news.hans@telus.net   
      
   Hans-Jürgen Schönig wrote:   
      
   > I am fairly new to Oracle in general.   
   > One of my customers is asking for a software implementing the Oracle   
   > wire-protocol.   
   > The idea is: They have a very old Cobol application which cannot be   
   > changed anymore. They want to migrate from Oracle to other databases   
   > without changing their Cobol software.   
   > My idea was: To implement an adapter talking "Oracle". This adapter can   
   > then transform the Oracle protocol to something else.   
   > My question now is: Which wire protocol does Oracle support? Is it   
   > realistic to implement something like that in realistic time?   
   > Can anybody point me to Oracle specs describing the protocol?   
   >   
   >     Regards,   
   >   
   >        Hans   
      
   Proprietary.  No public API.   
      
   Details, as they exist, available in the Oracle Networking manuals at   
   http://tahiti.oracle.com or http://docs.oracle.com   
      
   /Hans   
      
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