Howard, no, absolutely not. (AFAIK this stuff is all exactly the same
for 8i, 9i, and 10g, btw.)
If AOLserver and the Oracle RDBMS are on
the same box, you can just set ns_param DataSource to empty string,
which will use the Bequeath connection method.
If they are on different boxes, you must make sure that the Oracle
listener is configured properly, and then set ns_param DataSource to
the proper SID, "ora10" or whatever else you named it.