Re: 9.2.0.5 is available for win32

mike.stone_at_talk21.com (mike stone) wrote in message news:<41039eb1.0404050652.2df4a989_at_posting.google.com>...
> "Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote in message news:<407117ac$0$3304$ed9e5944_at_reading.news.pipex.net>...
> > "Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message
> > news:1081006651.655924_at_yasure...
> > > I will give it to you as specifically as I can ... my chief
> > > technical contact at Oracle ... sorry can't name names ...
> > > when asked about installing the 9.2.0.5 patch said in two words,
> > > and I quote: "Don't ... Wait". That is all I know. In the next
> > > breath he said the 9.2.0.4 CD set just released is fine.
> >
> > Not so much the 2 words as the pause between them then. Don't wait is of
> > course an unhesitating recommendation!
>
> No - the significant word here is "Wait". For what?
> My understanding is that 9.2.0.5 was the designated terminal patch
> release for 9i. As such, it was the one our shop was waiting for
> before initiating our migration program from 8i, so to read this
> thread is perplexing.
> Is it being implied that there's another patch release in the
> pipeline? - a 9.2.0.6??

Mike,

I don't recall seeing a notice posted on metalink that 9.2.0.5 would be a terminal patchset release version.
I don't even think that we have a "hard" de-support date "that won't be pushed back at the last minute, thwarting the plans of a proactive DBA". There may be an announced de-support date for 9.2, but don't count on it. I wonder if Vegas would start taking bets on such things?

When has a de-support date for a terminal release _NOT_ been pushed back?

cynically yours,

Pd Received on Mon Apr 05 2004 - 15:46:27 CDT