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@@ -8,9 +8,7 @@
 
        <li>Works on Windows and Linux</li>
 
-       <li>Works with Oracle 8i</li>
-
-       <li>May work with Oracle 9i</li>
+       <li>Works with Oracle 8i and 9i.</li>
 
        <li>Uses the Oracle CLI (Call Level Interface) which is a C library (API) for the Oracle Client 
                software</li>
@@ -30,23 +28,15 @@
 ** Current Status
 
 <ul>
-       <li>OracleConnection can connect and disconnect to an Oracle 8i database on 
+       <li>OracleConnection can connect and disconnect to an Oracle 8i or 9i database on 
        Windows and Linux via OCI (Oracle Call-level Interface)</li>
        
-       <li>No longer uses a glue library (a library between the System.Data.OracleClient.dll
-       assembly and the oci library).  In Current Mono cvs, System.Data.OracleClient 
-       directly platform invokes into the oci library thanks to Tim Coleman.</li>
-       
        <li>Can have multiple connections with different transactions where each transaction is
        separated from the others, so a rollback or commit in one transaction 
        does not affect the other.</li>
        
        <li>Can execute simple DML SQL statements, such as, 
        INSERT a row into the EMP table via the OracleCommand's ExecuteNonQuery method</li>
-               
-       <li>The System.Data.OracleClient.dll assembly can be built with mcs/mono via
-       the makefile.gnu for System.Data.OracleClient or csc/.net via the
-       System.Data.OracleClient.build nant build file.</li>
        
        <li>Can retrieve data via ExecuteReader and OracleDataReader.  Currently, 
        supports character, numeric, some date data types.  ExecuteScalar
@@ -66,8 +56,7 @@
        
        <li>Lots of missing functionality and bugs.</li>
        
-       <li>Works with SQL# command-line and GTK# versions in cvs.  Only works with
-       simple character data though.</li>
+       <li>Works with SQL# command-line and GTK# GUI versions.</li>
           
 </ul>
        
@@ -79,9 +68,11 @@
        <li>transactions (WORKING)</li>
        <li>Stored Procedures, Functions, and Packages support</li>
        <li>Be able to fill a DataTable in a DataSet via a data adapter (IN PROGRESS)</li>
-       <li>Support for Oracle 8i (WORKING</li>
-       <li>Support for Oracle 9i (UNKNOWN)</li>
-       <li>Support LOBs</li>
+       <li>Support for Oracle 8i on Linux and Windows (WORKING)</li>
+       <li>Support for Oracle 9i on Linux and Windows (WORKING)</li>
+       <li>Support for Oracle 10g on Linux and Windows [TODO].  Please let us 
+       know on mono-list if Mono OracleClient works with Oracle 10g or not.  If not, what errors do you get</li>
+       <li>Support Large OBjects</li>
        <li>Support all the data types</li>
        <li>Implement Connection pooling</li>
        <li>Security</li>
@@ -99,9 +90,7 @@
        Registration to the <a href="http://technet.oracle.com/">Oracle Technology Network</a> is free.  If installing on Linux, 
        I suggest you do a lot of searching to see how others installed Oracle on Linux.</li>
        
-       <li>Make sure System.Data.OracleClient.dll assembly is built, if not, go
-       into System.Data.OracleClient and do a make -f makefile.gnu (on Linux) or
-       ../../nant/NAnt.exe (on Windows using Cygwin).</li>
+       <li>Make sure System.Data.OracleClient.dll assembly is built.</li>
        
        <li>Take a look at TestOracleClient.cs found at mcs/class/System.Data.OracleClient/Test</li>
        
@@ -161,12 +150,10 @@
            -r System.Data.OracleClient.dll
 </pre>
                </li>
-               <li>Build on Windows via Cygwin:
+               <li>Build on Windows:
 <pre>
-       mono C:/cygwin/home/MyHome/mono/install/bin/mcs.exe \
-            TestExample.cs \
-            -lib:C:/cygwin/home/MyHome/mono/install/lib \
-            -r System.Data.dll -r System.Data.OracleClient.dll
+       mcs TestExample.cs  /r:System.Data.dll \
+           /r:System.Data.OracleClient.dll
 </pre>
                </li>
        </ul>