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It's a legacy database that's been in place since '99.
Support ran out a long time ago.
-- Andreas Oracle 9i Certified Professional Oracle 10g Certified Professional Oracle 9i Certified PL/SQL Developer "If you don't eat your meat, you cannot have any pudding. "How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?!?!" --- WARNING: DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL Reply to me only on this newsgroup "DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message news:1119566206.162977_at_yasure...Received on Thu Jun 23 2005 - 18:31:38 CDT
> Andreas Sheriff wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> My eyes are starting to turn inside out.
>>
>> Does anyone have a good grasp on Oracle licensing?
>>
>> We currently have Oracle Enterprise 8.1.5 installed.
>> Is 8.1.7 considered an update or another product altogether?
>
> 8.1.7 is considered unsupported and obsolete.
>
> The only reason to move to 8.1.7 from 8.1.5 would be if you
> made really bad purchasing decision from a third-party vendor
> in which case you would need to know what the original license
> said.
> --
> Daniel A. Morgan
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