[techtalk] Sun/Oracle/ODBC pitfalls

[kris s]

We're building an enterprise sun system (perhaps an e450 perhaps an e4500) to support a complicated e-commerce application.

It seems pretty clear that no one will fault you if you recommend a Sun/Oracle architecture.  But the programmers are MS ASP programmers and they will connect to the dB using ODBC.  From what I've read here this could be bad.  I've also read that ODBC is single threaded.   

You guys represent a plethora of information.  Would you be kind enough to point out the pitfalls I may be facing?  Is there another protocol I should investigate?  If the programmers write Java is there another better protocol or am I still stuck with the ODBC bottle neck?

Thanks in advance.
Kris

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