MDAC 2.5 SDK - ODBC Driver for Oracle
To use the Microsoft ODBC Driver for Oracle, you must have Microsoft Windows 95/98 or Microsoft Windows NT/Windows 2000 and Oracle Client Software version 7.3 or later installed on your Windows system. Oracle8 has limited support: not all data types in Oracle8 are supported, and the Object extensions to Oracle8 are not supported. For more information about supported data types, see "Supported Data Types" in this documentation.
The ODBC Driver for Oracle supports only SQL*Net 2.3 or later. Supported network software includes Microsoft LAN Manager, NetWare, VINES, DECnet, and any network that supports TCP/IP.
For more information about Oracle products, refer to your Oracle documentation.