Re: Boy am I lucky or what?

I haven't looked that Metalink "lifecycle" stuff for Netware lately to see if they "locked down" an EAS (extended assistance support) end date, but the last time I did look, it was very abiguous at best. Typically EAS runs for about 2 or three years after "desupport". I also went through several weeks of getting an incredible amount of evasion and nonsense from our Oracle account rep about the Netware/EAS issue. Of course we are on a higher-ed site-license/discount thing, so I guess they figure they don't have to work all that hard on providing "non-critical" info. We are on the verge of starting our conversion from O7.3.2 on NW3.123 to O8i on Win2000. My guess is that the NW3.12 box would sit there and run forever with O7.3.x, but things would get kinda wild&crazy if there was a hardware failure and we needed to deal with new drivers and that kind of stuff in order to do recovery. I'll be keeping zipped exports of our tables around as secondary backup in case we have to move them to another platform, and then also putting redundant copies of those and zipped database files on cdr.

regards,
ep

On 27 Oct 2000, at 6:26, Ruth Gramolini wrote:

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> Desupport doesn't mean death. It just means that they will not fix anymore
> bugs, etc.

...

> ----- Original Message -----
>
> The shop here is a Novell 4.11 sp8a running Oracle 7.3.4.0.1 ( I
> know, no
> heckling please). They purchased dual cpu's for the servers but they aren't
> supported on 4.11( plan to upgrade the OS to 5.1 "sometime next year". With
> the plans to upgrade the OS next year I thought it would be a good idea to
> start planning the Oracle upgrade also. But alas "Oracle will desupport ALL
> Novell products 12/2001"

...
> I think that Oracle is trying to "desupport" me out of a job!
Received on Fri Oct 27 2000 - 12:52:06 CDT