Better late than never! Oraclehas
announced the commencement of a journeythat we
completed in 2002 (across Microsoft .NET and Mono). Hopefully,
their support of CRL Runtime Hosting will bring added clarity to
the intrinsic value of the multi-language bindings via the ECMA-CLI
that facilitate the development and deployment of DBMS Stored
Procedures using a plethora of languages (ditto creation of User
Defined Types, Function, Table Value Functions).
I also hope that Oracle will support Mono -off the bat- rather
thantaking the typical"we will port to Mono sometime in
the future..." type message whichwill not be acceptable,
especially as we pulled this off first time around in2002 (as
atop Mono then). Thus,I am sure they can do it in 2005
:-)
Hopefully we should be able to add Oracle 10g Release 2 and
DB2 to our SQL CLR hosting features
comparison document that currently only covers SQL Server 2005
and Virtuoso.