Forum OpenACS Q&A: orasoft, anyone?

1: orasoft, anyone?

Posted by Janine Ohmer on 02/20/02 03:18 PM

Sorry for the somewhat off-topic post, but does anyone out there have
an Orasoft tarball/RedHat 7.2 RPM they are willing to share?
orasoft.org, mattshouse.com and advantio.com are all displaying only
"hello, world" and have for several weeks now. Hmm... maybe they need
some help? :)

Before anyone asks, Orasoft is an open source GUI tool for working
with Oracle, and I have no idea if it's any good because I've never
tried it. That's why I'm looking for a copy! Advantio is a company
Matt formed to take the project quasi-commercial, ala Sendmail, but as
of last time I checked the site the latest version was still free.

Thanks in advance,

2: Response to orasoft, anyone? (response to 1)

Posted by Talli Somekh on 02/20/02 03:20 PM

Janine, you may also want to try TOra which you can get at http://tora.sf.net.

talli

3: off-topic? not really (response to 1)

Posted by Rocael Hernández Rizzardini on 02/20/02 10:19 PM

Well Janine, I consider that your post is not off-topic because we work with pg and oracle, and most important, we are a developer community, so it's better to have more info to share with everybody!

4: TOra (response to 1)

Posted by Tony Dunn on 02/21/02 04:49 AM

Talli,

Thanks for posting the link on TOra - this tool is amazing. I'm
pretty much a command-line DBA, but this could change things...

5: Response to orasoft, anyone? (response to 1)

Posted by Talli Somekh on 02/21/02 04:53 AM

Tony, no problem. There is also a serious effort to get TOra working with PostgreSQL. Also, Todd Gillespie and I have discussed building some OACS specific functionality into the tool as well. You may want to ping him as he's taken a look at the source code at some level, if you're interested that is.

talli

6: Use the "Internet Wayback Machine" (web.archive.org) (response to 1)

Posted by David Cohen on 02/21/02 10:40 PM

Janine--it looks like you can get the software off an archived version of the orasoft site, via the Internet Wayback Machine.

Here is the link to the most recent version of the site where the software is still available (ObjectManager 2 and SQLWorks 3.1), from Sept. 2001

7: Response to orasoft, anyone? (response to 1)

Posted by Janine Ohmer on 02/22/02 12:21 AM

Thanks, Talli and David!

Talli, do you recommend the 1.2.2 release, or the 1.3.3 alpha?

I will try to remember to come back to this thread and post after I have had a chance to try both.

8: Response to orasoft, anyone? (response to 1)

Posted by Dave Manginelli on 02/22/02 04:24 PM

You might also want to try DbVisualizer. It's free (though not open source) and available from here: http://www.minq.se/products/dbvis/. It uses jdbc and works with any database for which jdbc drivers are available. The down side is that it's slow...