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Re: Oracle8i client-Oracle10g server question

From: Frank van Bortel <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net>
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 21:52:30 +0100
Message-ID: <c207na$qib$1@news4.tilbu1.nb.home.nl>


Frank van Bortel wrote:

> Daniel Morgan wrote:
> 

>> A. Fuentes wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Fellow Oracle Users:
>>>
>>> I have VERY MANY clients with Oracle8i client installed,
>>> and communicating without a problem to an Oracle 9i Server.
>>>
>>> Now, I am planning to migrate to Oracle10g server.
>>> Will the 8i client machines will be able to communicate
>>> to the 10g server? (as they are now doing with the 9i Server)
>>>
>>>
>>> Any advice/thoughts grealty appreciated and welcome.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>>
>>> A. Fuentes
>>> 512-297-9937
>>
>>
>>
>> My only question would be ... Why?
>>
>> Will it work? I would guess so. Will Oracle support help you if
>> you have a problem? Probably not. Why do this? The cost for the
>> 10g client software is ....?
>>

> Unknown - as is Windows 10G client?
> OP does not want to bother updating clients (many, VERY MANY)

Anyone SEEN the 10G client, then?
Thought Oracle did not do vaporware; how can you buy nonexistent software? No met physical threads, please.

I was merely trying to say: there IS no 10G client for Windows - yet. So the cost is NULL, undefined, unknown.

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Regards,
Frank van Bortel
Received on Mon Mar 01 2004 - 14:52:30 CST

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