title: Alternative Oracle drivers for .net
body: <p>I have to develop a tool in C# that retrieves some data from an Oracle DB. Since our IT support is having some trouble with installing the Oracle client, I want to be able to connect to the database without the client installed.
  The idea is to just install (and maybe register) an additional library together with the app.</p>
  
  <p>Which alternatives to the Oracle client exist, and what are their pros and cons?</p>
  
  <p>This is for a small application (1 form, 2 or 3 queries, the result displayed in a DataGrid, probably no more than 10-20 data sets), but I am also interested in scalability issues, since we may also move away from the Oracle client with bigger future projects.</p>
  
  <p>Of course a freeware solution would be nice, but we are not limited to that.</p>