Re: Oracle FTP

You guys are right. I went out to Metalink to have a look. 8.1.6 is desupported in a few months as well! Of course if you've tried to phone Oracle support recently, you might think all versions are desupported.

Van

"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr_at_www.com> wrote in message news:3a9b7503_at_news.iprimus.com.au...
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> "Van Messner" <vmessner_at_bestweb.net> wrote in message
> news:jnDm6.1549$Hg.165706_at_monger.newsread.com...
> > Can this be true? I though 8.0.5 was just desupported.
> >
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> Certainly is true, and a darned good thing too. 8.1.5 was obviously an
> initial release. "Feature Laden" might be a reasonable description. "Bug
> ridden" is rather more accurate.
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> Regards
> HJR
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> > Van
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> >
> > "Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message
> > news:um7l9t4u3h6hc36ef0qijs3h4rn0cghcso_at_4ax.com...
> > > On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 12:31:24 -0500, Scott Haas <haas_at_scpa.sri.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > >I was looking for the latest patchsets for Oracle 8.1.5 on the oracle
> > > >ftp site (ftp://oracle-ftp.oracle.com/), but I couldn't find where
 these
> > > >patchsets would be.
> > > >I am also looking for patchsets for JDeveloper, WebDB (now Portal),
 and
> > > >Discoverer. Can anyone provide the location of these patchsets ?
> > > >
> > > >TIA,
> > > >Scott
> > >
> > > 8.1.5 has been desupported on all platforms. Patchsets are usually
> > > available from metlalink.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
> >
> >
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Received on Tue Feb 27 2001 - 19:50:15 CST