6 The Oracle Wire Protocol Driver

The DataDirect Connect64 for ODBC Oracle Wire Protocol driver (the Oracle Wire Protocol driver) supports the following Oracle database servers:

Oracle 10g R1 and R2 (10.1 and 10.2)
Oracle 9i R1 and R2 (9.0.1 and 9.2)
Oracle 8i R2 and R3 (8.1.6 and 8.1.7)

The Oracle Wire Protocol driver is supported in the Windows, UNIX, and Linux environments. See "Environment-Specific Information" for detailed information about the Windows, UNIX, and Linux environments supported by this driver.

Refer to the readme file shipped with your DataDirect product for the file name of the Oracle Wire Protocol driver.

NOTE: The Oracle Wire Protocol driver does not require any Oracle client software. DataDirect also provides an Oracle client-based driver; see "The Oracle Driver" for details.