I'd love to do some work/testing on Django's Oracle branch because we've got a few legacy PL/SQL web applications (via mod_plsql) that are begging to be replaced and Django seems a good fit.
Problem is, I upgraded to a MacBook a year ago, but unfortunately it seems Oracle are still denying the existence of Intel Macs.
No Instant Client package has been compiled for Intel Macs despite there being quite a few threads on the OTN forums like this one. There is a binary that works just fine on the command line, but you cant link cx_Oracle (or PHP, or anything else) to it.
Anecdotally it seems to me that more and more developers are moving to Mac, and this seems particularly true of startups. Granted, an Oracle RDBMS probably won't be first cab off the rank for most of these developers, but why alienate today's innovators (and some of tomorrow's CIOs) for the sake of a compile flag?
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I now have a service request logged with Oracle. 12 licenses must count for something, right? :|
Posted May 24, 2007 at 5:03 p.m. ¶Comments are now closed.