How to convince the Customer

Hey All,

I am facing this situation where I have coded a Perl framework on Windows
and its all working fine. The framework mostly uses DBI and ODBC module to
connect to both Oracle server, execute SQL queries, fetch Rows etc etc.

Now the customer wants to use the framework on a Solaris machine (it has
Perl installed - 5.8.4). However that Solaris machine doesn't have DBI
module as a result of which I can't use my framework. But it has Oracle
client installed using which (sqlplus, sqlldr etc) I am able to connect to
the Oracle DB Server (located remotely)

Customer doesn't want to install anything third party that didn't come
pre-installed with Solaris box. However he may give a thought to installing
new version of standalone Perl which will have DBI module integrated. I
guess Perl 5.10.1 has DBI present by default. Could someone please confirm.

In addition to DBI do I need any other module to connect to Oracle DB from a
Solaris machine?

Is there a way I can convince the client that Perl is good OpenSource tool
and certainly not a malacious software.

Cheers,
Parag

• How to convince the Customer by Parag Kalra
• Re: How to convince the Customer by Rene Schickbauer
• Re: How to convince the Customer by Raymond Wan