Re: No more Oracle Standard Edition for VMS

In article <1156369691.435382.197640_at_m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,

   "Doug Phillips" <dphill46_at_netscape.net> writes:
>
> Indeed. As is the case with many no longer sold/supported products. The
> "do nothing" option is valid until need exceeds capability, or unless
> organization policy requires product currency. The "do nothing" option
> is available to current happy and static Oracle SE (or any product)
> users regardless of what Oracle (or any product supplier) does.
>
> Reading the OP it didn't seem like "do nothing" was an option.
>

   "Do nothing" is an option, but not a terribly attractive one. It cuts us out of being able to take advantage of product enhancements that 10g has over 9i and that future Oracle versions will presumably offer. It also eliminiates the possibility of moving from an Alpha architecture to IA64 - which will eliminate our ability to purchase any new servers in a few months and will make it harder to acquire used servers as time goes on. One can also presume that VMS on IA64 will begin to diverge from VMS on Alpha over time and that at some point the Alpha versions will be "frozen".

   Tactically speaking I wouldn't see a great problem with freezing our Oracle installation at 9.2 for the next 5 years or so - all the stuff we currently have would continue to work. In fact this would save us thousands of dollars in software support costs as there'd be no reason to pay Oracle any software support charges. However in the long run this solution will probably not be viable and I'd prefer that Oracle maintain a commitment to provide us with the software upgrades for which we continue to pay them. Received on Wed Aug 23 2006 - 17:40:06 CDT