RE: Boy am I lucky or what?

From: Jesse, Rich <Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 13:57:29 -0600
Message-Id: <10665.120595@fatcity.com>

Hey Ron,

Did you know that the Alpha cluster you have can be a Unix cluster? = And
depending on the model, you can run OpenVMS AND Tru64 Unix = SIMULTANEOUSLY?
Check out http://www.digital.com (I refuse to go directly to Compaq).

It's damn fine hardware. Make use of it! :)

Rich Jesse                          System/Database Administrator, =

OpenVMS
bigot
Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI = USA p.s. And did you also know that most Explorers with Firestones = Wilderness
ATs are running them at lower pressure so as to cause excessive stress = and
heat on the the sidewalls? I had a Ranger with three sets of the = recalled
tires, two of them in the main recall years, but they ran fine right = down to
the treadwear indicator because they were properly inflated. Now the damnable Goodyear Wrangler RT/Ss I have... [soapbox: off]

-----Original Message-----

From: Ron Rogers [mailto:RROGERS_at_galottery.org] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 09:05
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Boy am I lucky or what?

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!!!!
ROR =AA=BF=AA

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