You should listen to the master mpeppler - author of DBD::Sybase. ODBC is just a convenient top level interface, you still need database specific drivers. If you 'google' for 'Freeware Solaris 2.8 Oracle ODBC Driver', you will end up with thousands of related links. Beware that most of these Oracle drivers are not free, you will just have to keep searching.

The following ODBC driver for solaris looks good, but it's not free. :-(

http://www.easysoft.com/products/2104/main.phtml

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Trying to connect to an Oracle DB on Windows from DBD:ODBC on UNIX. by Roger
in thread Trying to connect to an Oracle DB on Windows from DBD:ODBC on UNIX. by Anonymous Monk

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