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Re: ocp 10g or 9i

From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 15:42:44 +0200
Message-ID: <e2dbqe$i9k$3@news3.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>


Andreas Sheriff wrote:
> "Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message
> news:ngfi42t75c3236fvts9m286vguo91o1iud_at_4ax.com...

>> On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:31:42 -0700, "Andreas Sheriff"
>> <spamcontrol_at_iion.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 10gR2 is the current version, but some people are slow to update from 9i.
>> There are still many 8i installations around!
>> In 1998, at one site, whose name I can't mention, I found 6.0.36
>> running, which has been desupported for 4 years!
>> Please don't assume all sites upgrade. Most sites don't.
>>
>> --
>> Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

>
> Oracle doesn't offer 8i certifications anymore. The question was about OCP
> certification. Why would mentioning 8i, a version, as you've said, "has
> been desupported for 4 years", be relevant to this thread? Should I then
> mention 7? What about 6? How low do you want to go?
>
> And yes, I've got to admit it as well. I still have an 8i installation here
> for a dev machine. Sure, I've already created a 10gR2 dev machine, but the
> programmers are slow to switch over.
>
> BTW, I just installed my first 10gR2 64 bit 2-node RAC! Yeah!
>

You want V4?
You can download an installed image, runnable on Dos 6.2 (included) on VMWare...

-- 
Regards,
Frank van Bortel

Top-posting is one way to shut me up...
Received on Sat Apr 22 2006 - 08:42:44 CDT

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