ODP.NET

Are there plans to write a complete native provider - i.e. no OCI.dll unmanaged calls. It sure looks like quite a few of the problems with this driver (and Microsoft's) are the dependence on all that unmanaged code from Oracle. I guess it would mean porting OCI.dll and a few other things to C# or managed C++, but that's not too much to ask, is it?

A driver without a requirement to install all the Oracle networking protocol stuff would be very, very nice - has it built in like the datadirect driver. Those java based installers for updating clients are the worst! Would be wonderful to go through an install that just dropped the DLL(s) in the GAC and add a few entries to web.config/app.config and away you go. Then we could do proper assembly versioning...solving probably the biggest problem with your client software.