Re: No Oracle Standard Edition planned for VMS on IA64

"Malcolm Dunnett" <nothome_at_spammers.are.scum> wrote in message news:TPRX3Erfztah_at_malvm9.mala.bc.ca...
> 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.
>

What version of Standard Edition are you running now? I see Standard for 8.1.7 was never available.. and nothing after that ( I was surprised to see this)
Are you still on 816 (not supported) ?
No Standard edition is supported right now on VMS as far as I can see.

I've been waiting so long for 10gR2... and still waiting. I'm on 9206 10R1 (enterprise) is there for quite a long time already

Syltrem Received on Fri Jul 07 2006 - 14:54:34 CDT