ETL for Foxpro DBF files

Hello,
Could you please inform me whether there is any facility in OWB for importing old Foxpro DBF files?
We want to make a data warehouse from old Foxpro systems and there are terabytes of data in the foxpro dbf format(It would be big even after the first ETL). So I hope I don't have to use ODBC that could be slow and use something native instead that could be faster.
Thanks,
Reza
P.S we use Oracle 11g Release 2
Edited by: user13814337 on Feb 19, 2011 6:49 AM
Edited by: user13814337 on Feb 19, 2011 6:51 AM

Hi,
It will be an ETL process, I am not sure if there is anything like java or pl/sql package that can do this ETL, If it is not there then we have to develop it. I hoped OWB could have something for that, but seems there is nothing built-in in OWB for foxpro systems.
Thanks

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I wanted to say: the "costumer" alway is right I understood that part (customer by the way).
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