Re: de-support of 8.1.7.x postponed to 31-dec-2004

drak0nian_at_yahoo.com (Paul Drake) wrote in message news:<1ac7c7b3.0310091304.26fe3421_at_posting.google.com>...
> In case you haven't read about it yet, Oracle has postponed de-support
> of Oracle Server 8i Release 3 for some (most) platforms.
>
> Why they would annouce that on 08-Oct-2003 when de-support was
> supposed to have taken effect on 31-Dec-2003 is completely beyond me.
> This should have been announced this at least 3 months ago. What were
> they thinking?
>
> If you hadn't yet migrated to 9.2, this is good news.
> If you were planning on migrating to 9.2, and you haven't yet tested
> your code against the 9.2.0.4 CBO, do so, and file your bug reports.
> Its not the same animal as the 8.1.7 CBO. I guess that you can now
> take your time.
>
> If seems that one possible outcome of this announcement would be to
> skip 9.2 entirely and just deploy on 10g when it stabilizes.
>
> or you could just keep using 7.3.4.5.2 :D
>
> Pd

Paul, I just checked metalink and they are still showing Dec. 31, 2003 for the end of regular support, ECS, on 8.1.x via note 250629.1 (1 of 2) while note 148451.1 (2 of 2) shows error correction support runs through 31-Dec-2004 and extended support through 2007.

Once again contridictory data is provided from Oracle so I am not sure what the real end support date is. I think anyone whose plans are subject to change due to this announcement should verfiy the end of ECS before chaning their plans.

Just adding to the confusion -- Mark D Powell -- Received on Fri Oct 10 2003 - 08:51:19 CDT