RE: Boy am I lucky or what?

Hum, change contractors.... I am however and stuck on certain versions because of dumb third-party applications. It means I do get to play with tons of versions. Soon my head will explode trying to remember what feature is on what version.

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From: Ruth Gramolini [mailto:rgramolini_at_tax.state.vt.us] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 7:26 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Boy am I lucky or what?

Desupport doesn't mean death. It just means that they will not fix = anymore
bugs, etc. I will have to stay on 8.0.6 for life because that is what = our
contractors will support. If you have a stable application on a stable platform don't worry about desupport notices.

Ruth
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To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 10:05 AM

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.   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!!!!
ROR =AA=BF=AA

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