Re: RBO to CBO

"DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:41d6f473_2_at_127.0.0.1...
> But given that Oracle doesn't charge for upgrades if you have a current
> support contract what is the downside to running the upgrade script and
> moving up with versions after they have been tested and shown to be
> stable?

Vendor support.

>
> I had a customer this year still running apps with Oracle 7 and a
> version of forms with a number so small I can't repeat it. Caused them
> nothing but misery when they were forced by Sarbanes-Oxley to audit
> system usage. What would have taken less than two minutes with Oracle 9i
> cost them many tens of thousands of dollars.

I'm not sure I get this. Sarbanes-Oxley requirements only take 2 minutes per database with 9i? In addition what was the cost of

move from 7-8.0.6-8.1.5-8.1.7-.9.0.1-9.2-10.1 ? in unit testing, client or server changes etc.

Then add in the costs of the forms moves and rewrites.

I do like systems to be current, but I'm sure that upgrading every 18 months is too costly.

-- 
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com





>

> No doubt someone in Sri Lanka argued against a tsunami warning system as

> being too expensive. My point being that the price will always be paid.

> It is merely a question of when.

> -- 

> Daniel A. Morgan

> University of Washington

> damorgan_at_x.washington.edu

> (replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)