Re: Product support for Oracle 7.x

Afulajo wrote:

> Hi Team,
>
> Does Oracle 7.x is still officialy supported?

Yes. Oracle has an Extended Maintenance Support program for those customers who are (chose one or more) stupid, lazy, slow, brilliant (as in know-it-all), wealthy, vendor-dependent, still-looking-at-the-Y2K-impact.

AFAIK, that is only available for old customers as Oracle does not want to see any more copies of the obsolete programs being deployed - it costs them tremendous resources to keep the old knowledge base alive. As an incentive to upgrade, they as huge piles of money to sign up to the EMS program.

> For Old customers?
> For new customers?
>
> On which platforms?

IIRC, EMS is available on all the original platforms.

> Any where I can download for testing?

Not legally - that I know of.

> I need:
> Solaris
> AIX
> HPUX
> LINUX
> TRUE64
Never happened for Linux. Basically 7.3 died in 1998 although it went through some last end-of-life thrashing until 2002. Probably not available for most latest-releases

Dumb counter-question ... why? Or rather, why not use one that is current? I'm always interested in understanding why someone wants to do business, or has a business plan based on, a platform that is obsolete or announced to becoming obsolete soon. (I do recognize there may be legitimate reasons, I' curious to know what they are)

Oracle's current tech platform is 9i and they have hinted at 10i. Even 8.0 is desupported and 8.1 (aka 8i) is going away quickly.

> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Afula Joe.
Received on Sun May 11 2003 - 14:12:44 CDT