ASP to Oracle...without the Oracle client...

Hi there. I work in a university setting, complete with politics and territorial departments. I am authoring some web pages using third party software for the content management (which uses SQL Server); the 3rd party software requires these pages use ASP. However, there is some data I need to pull off of an Oracle Database and integrate with the regular content.
I have just begun to learn about my options for connecting to Oracle from ASP, and they all involve, if I understand correctly, installing the Oracle client software on the web server.
The department that controls the web server (Win 2000 IIS) has balked on installing the client software. They want to keep the machine "clean".
Is there a method for connecting to Oracle from ASP that does not involve installing the Oracle client on the web server? Maybe just a driver? Someone told me that I might be able to have the ASP page call a procedure on SQL server (which is not on the web server) which in turn connects to Oracle, pulls the data, then returns it to the ASP page. Sounds convoluted, but I guess if it works...
The issue is not going away; we are pretty much tied to ASP for our web development and Oracle for our database needs. Can anyone give me some advice on what direction I should take? Do I have any options? (Besides stealing the web server away...)
Thanks in advance...

If I were in your position, I would simply explain that if you want to pull data from an Oracle database and use that data to create dynamic ASP web pages, you'll need the Oracle client on the web server. 99%+ of the world does it this way, it'll almost certainly cost more to develop and maintain a nonstandard setup than it will cost to "depurify" the web server with the Oracle client. Save lots of headaches down the road.
Barring that, however, there are a few options technically available to you. I'll list them in my personal order of preference
1) There are some third parties (DataDirect is one) that sell "thin" ODBC drivers which don't require the Oracle client to be installed. They speak the Oracle wire protocol. You can use this thin driver and the Microsoft OLE DB to ODBC translation layer to communicate with Oracle. These aren't particularly cheap products as I understand it, but you may be able to negotiate terms. You'll still have to install something on the web server, it'll just be a smaller something than the Oracle client.
2) You could set up a SQL Server database on a separate machine (you could have SQL Server & Oracle on the same machine I suppose), install the Oracle client on that machine, and set SQL Server up to query from the Oracle database. Your ASP pages could query the SQL Server database on this machine, which would query Oracle and return the data. Not particlarly elegant, but doable. If you have to license the SQL Server install (i.e. you don't have a site license), this is probably more expensive & less elegant than #1.
Side note: the reason you don't need to install "SQL Server client" software on the web server is that Microsoft has helpfully decided that SQL Server client components need to be a standard part of Windows.
3) (Warning, speculative) The goal here is to use Oracle's thin JDBC driver (no Oracle client required) on the web server to query the Oracle database. I don't know if you could cobble together some database access components using Visual J++ called from ASP that called Oracle's thin JDBC driver. This strikes me as requiring a whole mess of bailing wire, duct tape, and chewing gum to hold together if it's possible, but has the benefit of not costing you money (just sanity, time, future maintenance...)
So, it's technically possible to do what you wnat.
I'd strongly advocate getting folks to understand the necessity of installing the Oracle client on their precious web server, no matter how pristine they think it is. If you're really backed into a corner, explain that you can go for option #1, but there will be a financial cost to doing so. Without knowing your precise requirements, I would tend to suspect that you won't be able to meet you project objectives with #2 & #3 both because they'll make development, design, and maintenance more difficult and because they'll involve more "moving parts" which will tend to make performance & reliability suffer. If this is a low-priority system that people won't rely on too heavily, you may be able to get away with it. Of course, if it's a low priority system, my guess is that you wouldn't have to time to develop it.
Justin

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This function (remove_dia) just removes the diacritical characters and may be for my need this is all that is needed. Can someone help to review that given my need I am better of not using Oracle Text? I need to continue using the functionality of Like operator and also need to bypass diacritical characters so the simple function that I have meets my need whereas Oracle Text causes a change in behaviour of search queries.
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OrauserN

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3 /
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| Id | Operation                   | Name                      | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT            |                           |     1 | 2131 |     2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
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