RE: Oracle 7 documentation - Good One

Deepak,

There are still a lot of sites out there using Oracle Apps 10.7 which uses 7.3.4 as the backend. Although one could migrate to 8.1.7 at the backend and retain the 10.7 frontend until July 2003, officially 7.3.4 when used in this config will still be 'supported' - without ECS though. IMHO, 7.3.4 has been the longest survivor on the Oracle scene in recent years. And as a result, has become one of the most stablest of versions. The 'instability' (read: patches, patches and more patches) and relatively high cost of moving up to 11i/8.1.x (read: new technology, hungrier servers, special people to implement/maintain) has kept a number of organizations hovering on the edge of moving up versions.

This is from an 'Apps DBA' perspective, so this may vary coming from others on this list. However, at my last non-APPS gig, about 80% of the databases (all non-Apps, about 60-65 of them) were at 7.3.4 last year and I fear they will stay the same for a while to come....

John Kanagaraj
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Deepak Thapliyal [mailto:deepakthapliyal_at_yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 11:55 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: Oracle 7 documentation - Good One
>
>
> no offense.. just a sincere question.
>
> are people still using o7 out there? talking to oracle
> support regarding ECS must a be real pain in the butt
> as i guess they might have stopped supplying patches
> for o7.
>
> in our shop people are jittery continuing on 816 as
> its de-supported from TODAY (officially with no ECS
> support .. just workarounds) and we are thinking of
> hopping on 817 until 9.2 or 9.3 is released and proves
> stable
>
> just some thoughts... as i was pleasently surprised
> looking the the hits the o7 doc thread has recieved
>
> Deepak
>
> PS: ok now no holy war here please;
>
> --- "Eric D. Pierce" <PierceED_at_csus.edu> wrote:
> > Are you sure?
> >
> > I wasted time trying to find some minor
> > documentation
> > (platform specific release notes?) there a while
> > ago, and
> > after complaining that I couldn't find it, others
> > said
> > everything *isn't* there.
> >
> > Frustrating considering that they have a huge number
> > of
> > "CD packs" etc that appear to be small incrementals.
> >
> > It does appear that all the major documentation is
> > there.
> >
> > brgrds,
> > ep
> >
> > ORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2001, Number 304
> > > ------------------------------
> > >
> > > From: Jared.Still_at_radisys.com
> > > Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:21:35 -0800
> > > Subject: RE: Oracle 7 documentation - Good One
> > >
> > > Thanks for sharing this!
> > >
> > > Finally, complete documentation for Oracle 7 on.
> > ...
> >
> > ---original---
> >
> > |> Dear All,
> > |> I hit upon this site. I thought its worth sharing
> > |> http://docs.oracle.com/
> >
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