ODAC 11_1_6_0_21 + VS2008 + MSDTC + Win2008

Today, I found out that when we upgraded our development environment to VS 2008, and then updgraded our odac to 11.1.0.6.21 which was a requirement for interoperability, we sacrificed something very important -- Transaction support. It appears by all information I can find that odac 11 and the MTS service do not support windows server 2008.
Our MIS department tells me that they can no longer buy servers with windows server 2003 licenses, so the last server they got for our next client deploy is a windows 2008 server. We got our app installed, and when we ran it, we found that it could not enlist in a transaction, even though the correct components were installed, and the DTC config was just like we used for 2003.
A little google search revealed the "incredible" fact that odac 11 -- the lastest version, does not support DTC on windows server 2008. How can this be??????? Transaction support is very important for any application that has any sort of complex relational state, where rows need to succeed or fail as a unit.
How can you release a product which supports the latest development platform, but will not support a crucial functional requirement on the latest server version.
In addition, I can find no comment about when this support would be added.
EXTREMELY dissapointed and frustrated...
I posted this in the wrong forum, so please delete it.
Edited by: MCassidyKGI on Oct 28, 2008 3:12 PM

First of all, sorry for the double-post, I did that to be sure to have at least one post in the good forum.
@EJP : Actually, I'm supposed to be emitting multiple applet tags (with each multiple parameters). Supposed you have a temperature and a depth as parameters, so you'll have two applets, one for each parameter, given two plots.
I modify my post in order to have easily access to the JAVA code too.
The PHP code is a piece of a huge code, but you have there the only part which concerns the applets construction. I add this part of PHP code there only to help with comprehension.
With more investigations, I found that my code works well with the JAVA Plug-in 1.6.0_21 and the JRE version 1.6.0_18-b07 Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM and thus that sounds like a problem which is JRE specific.
The JAVA code was compiled with Eclipse on Linux by exporting the project in a JAR file.
But still have doubts concerning my JAVA code ... is it possible that the new JRE 1.6.0_21 version introduced new bugs/uncompatibilities ?

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I've installed Oracle 11g ODAC 11.1.0.5.10 Beta.
It came back with installation successful.
How do I get the Oracle Database Server(Oracle ODP.NET) to appear as one of my datasource choices?
I added the Oracle.DataAccess.dll (v. 2.111.5.10) to my bin folder. I restarted VS2005, dropped a gridview on the page, selected NewDatasource. My only options are for Microsoft.

This step by step tutorial should help you out:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/obe/net11gobe/building.net/vs_otn2.htm
There are parts of the tutorial that you can skip since you are only interested in ODP.NET showing up as a data source and using it within a gridview.

ODAC 11_1_6_0_21 + VS2008 + MSDTC + Win2008

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