OT: Oracle OCI to Oracle vs. OLEDB to Oracle

I'm looking for some advise about whether to use Oracle OCI to access an
Oracle DB as opposed to OLEDB with either the Oracle or MS provider.

Don't have any experience with OCI, OLEDB I'm fine with

Server environment will be ATL/VC++/COM+/2000

- One thing I'll definitely need is the ability to enlist connections in an
MSDTC transaction
- The ability to call stored procs and have the stored procs return an SP
result-code
- Send Batched SQL from middle tier to DB
- Return multiple result-sets from the DB server

Would OCI be faster
What is other peoples experience of OCI in terms of development and
maintenance burden when compared to OLEDB, I've seen reports of OCI where
you need patches for this, the right version for that and the other etc etc
etc....

Finally can anyone recommend a good Oracle DB developers reference book

TIA

Regards,
Phillip Allan-Harding

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