RE: desupport date for 8i

From: DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM>
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 06:04:25 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D28E7.20031009060425@fatcity.com>

Patrice

   Oracle's goal is to create a major release every 18 months, and someone figured out they historically have been pretty much on track. So then desupport intervals should theoretically be about 18 months apart. My guess is that 8i is very popular among large clients so its desupport is being delayed due to popular demand. Of course, 10g is just around the corner, so out with the old, in with the new.

Dennis Williams
DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com

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FYI... Oracle extended the desupport date for 8i by a year, end of error correction support is now 31-dec-2004.

They posted that end of ECS for 9i Rel 2 will be 31-dec-2005, I am doubtful about that, only 1 year lag time between two terminal releases?

Patrice.
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