Why not put Tru64 Unix on the Alpha?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kimberly Smith [SMTP:kimberly.smith_at_gmd.fujitsu.com]
> Sent: 27 October 2000 17:19
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: Boy am I lucky or what?
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> 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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> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 7:26 AM
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> 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.
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> Ruth
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> 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.
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> 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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