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Mark,
I agree with Sybrand, it will be necessary to reinstall.
I highly recommend doing your own export of the database, perhaps with a
script like this one:
http://www.dotcomsolutionsinc.net/products/installgen/sol_901_32bit_files/in
stallgen_sol901_35_.html
and probably an RMAN backup as well. Just to protect yourself.
David Simpson
www.dotcomsolutionsinc.net
"Mark Wagoner" <mwagoner_at_iac.net> wrote in message
news:ad91nl$17io$1_at_genma.iac.net...
> A company I am contracting with purchased a 3rd party app that uses Oracle
> for the backend. It turns out the vendor installed 8i Enterprise but,
> according to the invoice, only charged licensing for Standard (actually,
all
> they left was a bootleg copy of the Oracle CD, but that is a whole 'nother
> story). Given the cost difference combined with the fact that there is no
> benefit to using Enterprise in this case, the company is obviously not
> wanting to pay for the vendor's mistake.
>
> After pointing this out, the vendor claims they can come back in and
> downgrade the server from Enterprise to Standard. Now, a few years ago I
> worked for a software company that also packaged Oracle with the product,
> and I swear I was told once that you can upgrade but there is not way to
> downgrade. This would require an export/reinstall/import, and even that
> would fail if you were using any of the Enterprise features.
>
> My fear is the vendor is going to come in and trash the server. Based on
> past experiences with these people I have zero confidence in their
ability,
> but I don't want to challenge them on this if there really is a way to
> downgrade the software. If it wasn't for the loss of time and data (there
> is about 6 months of data in the database), I would gladly sit back and
> watch just to see them sweat when it doesn't work. Unfortunately I don't
> have that luxury.
>
> Does anyone know for sure if this is possible or not?
>
> Thanks
>
>
Received on Sat Jun 01 2002 - 09:03:38 CDT