No Oracle Standard Edition planned for VMS on IA64

I've been waiting for about a year to get a copy of Oracle Standard Edition that I can run on my rx2600 VMS box. I currently run it on an Alphaserver DS20.

   Until recently the "Certify" page on Oracle MetaLink has said it would be available in the first half of 2006. I just checked this morning and it now says it's "not planned for this platform". The "Enterprise Edition" still shows as being available, though it's now slipped to August 2006, which isn't quite the first half.

   So with the end of Alpha in sight and no Oracle standard edition available for Itanium and no way we can afford Enterprise edition it seems I no longer have a viable migration path for staying with VMS.

   It's clear my Oracle server will have to move to a non-VMS platform. Whether I will be able to install the client code on an Itanium VMS box so that my applications can still be ported is not entirely clear. My presumption is that I can install the client portions of the Enterprise Edition on there without a license ( ie that only the server platform needs to be licensed ).

   In any case this is not a good sign. I've really been trying to accept the inevitable and embrace Itanium, but it's getting awfully tiring running into all these brick walls. Received on Fri Jul 07 2006 - 11:19:58 CDT