RE: Oracle 8 and Forms 3

Bruce,

Sorry for duplication if you have already been down this road.

Did you look into "EAS" (Extended Assistance Support?) for 7.3.4?

EAS is "support" (usually 2 extra years?) after the (terminal release?) of a product has been "desupported".

If that seem confusing, look through the "lifecycle" part of Metalink, somewhere there is a description of "EAS", and how it fits into Oracle's general "obsolescence model".

The definitions are sort of soft and squishy, and apparently this allows Oracle to be flexible about how it defines EAS in each customer's case. My personal experience is that they refused to give me any hard details about EAS and desupport of a particular platform, preferring to push the "hard line" about the need to upgrade from 7.x to 8.

Anyway, my impression is that basically, Oracle EAS provides a minimum level of support (no *new* bug fixes), but they will give advice, provide workarounds & preexisting fixes, etc. EAS is also supposed to provide full upgrade rights (same as "regular" support).

I'm sure you'll be amazed to find that they charge extra for EAS.

good luck!

On 11 May 00 at 9:21, Bruce Page wrote:

> Date sent: Thu, 11 May 2000 09:21:13 -0800
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> From: Bruce Page <bpage_at_kimball.com>
> Subject: RE: Oracle 8 and Forms 3
> Organization: Fat City Network Services, San Diego, California

> Oracle 7.3.4 goes into desupport the end of this year. I just upgraded from
> 7.2.3 to 7.3.4 before the end of the year to get back on a supported
> platform and I would like to keep my database on a supported platform.

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> Not to be argumentative, but only to prompt some serious thought:
> Why does Kimball need to go to Oracle 8?
> If Kimball sees the need to move to Oracle 8 then why are they still on
> Forms 3?
>
> Tom Harleman
> Indiana Oracle Users Group VP ( www.inoug.org <http://www.inoug.org> )
> Pinnacle Solutions ( www.pinnacle-solutions.com
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> Where can I find a paper or directions on how to get a SQL*Forms, Version
> 3.0 application to run against an Oracle 8 database?
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>
> Bruce Page
Received on Thu May 11 2000 - 15:18:20 CDT