Gift Peddie (3/17/2009)
In the US I have not seen 8i or 9i for development since 2006, you may be talking about admin I am talking about development. The reason you cannot use 8i for multi lingual application and you need MSDTC to use 9i for layered .NET transaction application.
Small shop, huh?
_____________________________________
Pablo (Paul) Berzukov
Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.
Disclaimer: Advice is provided to the best of my knowledge but no implicit or explicit warranties are provided. Since the advisor explicitly encourages testing any and all suggestions on a test non-production environment advisor should not held liable or responsible for any actions taken based on the given advice.