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" so that throws those plans out =
the window. We also have an Alpha server running Open VMS that I can use. =
I decided to investigate using it as the database server. Oracle will =
desupport ver 8.0 this year but 8.1.6 is still supported (at least as of =
today). This sounded like a good idea because the management wanted to =
install the Oracle Applications Package on the Alpha server anyways. I did =
some checking on the applications paclages and Oracle is desupporting the =
application ver 11 for the Alpha Open VMS and are not porting it to ver =
11i. In fact they recommend you change your os server. Another great plan =
down the drain.=20
I think that for the money they spent on the Alpha Clustered Server last =
year they could have bought many Unix boxes.
I think that Oracle is trying to "desupport" me out of a job!
I also own a Corvair and a Pinto. Both of them have Firestone tires on =
them.
Boy am I lucky or what!!!!
Received on Fri Oct 27 2000 - 07:56:58 CDT
