Gavin mentioned...
>Let me point out that if what you want to do is to access an Oracle database
>from programs on the 3000, then you might want to look at using Java's JDBC
>with an Oracle JDBC driver (which I assume exists) that ought to make this
>rather easy.

Sounds like a good point. Just a few days ago, I used a small JDBC program
to read data from an Oracle database and write it into an Allbase database.
In my case, all stuff did reside on the 3000, but it also should work fine
across the network as well as multiple different platforms.