Re: Watch out - maybe your Oracle is not supported!

Marcin Kasperski wrote in message
<3847BD49.2D4048D4_at_softax.com.pl>...
|Recently I reported to Oracle support some minor problem with
OCI
|headers (my organization bought support of course). The answer
was
|amazing:
|
|"Oracle will not handle my support request because they do not
support
|the compiler I use (in this case Compaq C++ 6.2 on OpenVMS)!"

    [SNIP]
|I write that mainly to warn people: ask your Oracle support
whether they
|support environment you use. Let them write somewhere that they
fully
|support your configuration before you give them money. Stop
paying
|development support if your configuration is not supported.

|
| Regards
|
|-- Marcin.Kasperski<at>softax.com.pl,

Marcin.Kasperski<at>bigfoot.com
|-- Moje poglądy są moimi poglądami, nikogo poza mną nie
reprezentują.
|-- -------------------------------------------------------------

I would suggest that instead of dropping support that you switch to a supported C++ compiler. The basis for my suggestion is that sooner or later you will NEED Oracle support.

regards
jerry gitomer Received on Sat Dec 04 1999 - 00:01:14 CST