gazzag wrote:
> On 17 Jul, 06:06, sybra..._at_hccnet.nl wrote:
>> Actually, no: Because many companies don't NEED the new features.
>> We have one customer running a HRM package on 8i and Win2k.
>> They don't upgrade the HRM package, because they don't need a new
>> version (probably they aren't even aware there is a new one).
>> Consequently they don't upgrade Microsux and they don't upgrade
>> Oracle.
>> Their server is 5 years old. It works!
>>
>> Many customers just *CAN'T* (I repeat bloody CAN'T) upgrade, because
>> their vendors don't upgrade to newer versions of Oracle.
>>
>> --
>> Sybrand Bakker
>> Senior Oracle DBA
>
> About five years ago I went to a job interview. Without being too
> specific, it was for an Oracle DBA role at a very large nuclear power
> facility. During the interview I was surprised to learn that they
> were still running on Oracle 6 (to put this in perspective, 9i had
> been out for around six months and, as an aspiring DBA, I'd really cut
> my teeth on 7.3.x). Anyway, during the course of the interview I
> raised a question regarding their upgrade plans. "We have no plans to
> upgrade" was the reply. "Why?" I asked. The DBA grinned: "Do you
> want to 'upgrade' a nuclear power station?" I figured that I
> didn't...
>
> It was a closed system that didn't interact with anything outside of
> its network. The point being: it worked as it was. There's nothing
> inherently wrong with legacy systems, despite what the marketing guys
> would have you believe.
One of my customers, for the same reason, is still running Oracle 4 on
two Apollo workstations. But the vast majority of their systems are on
9.2 or 10.2 and the 9.2 should be gone by early next year.
--
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org
Received on Tue Jul 17 2007 - 10:43:37 CDT
