Re: Oracle headed for Legal Trouble
Date: 1996/01/10
Message-ID: <30F48089.3D8_at_aolsun.us.oracle.com>#1/1
As a member of not only Application Support, but the AutoInstall group within that division, I would like to make a couple of clarifications about the statements people have been making regarding the Applications installation. Please be aware that these statements are my own, and are not an official statement on behalf of Oracle Corporation.
First, prior to release 10.6 (this includes release 9, as well as 10.3,10.4, and 10.5) the concept of "shared" products that several people mentioned held true. In other words, rather than duplicate efforts some functionality relied on cross-product dependencies. Shared products did not have all the objects for that module installed, and in most cases did not include as many forms, concurrent programs, etc. on the operating system that a full installation of the product would have included and certainly did not include all of the database objects.
Beginning with release 10.6, all objects for all products _are_ installed. Release 10SC and future release 10 versions of Applications require more and more integration between the product modules and this integration is what pushed development to install all the code. In addition, there is a move towards dealing with multiple sets of books installs by setting up multiple organizations. Rather than having 5 installs of Payables, you would have just one, but an organization id would be associated with responsibilities, etc. similiar to the manner in which GL handles this now (take the Set of Book ID profile option for example). The move to multi-org allows for even more cross-module functionality (inter-company invoices, etc.), and is still being tested; however the change in procedure in relation to shared and fully installed products moves us one step in that direction.
So what will upgrading to release 10.6 mean to you? If you currently have multiple sets of books implemented, upgrading to 10.6 will not change that - and in fact additional installs of products can still be added. For each set of books, however, you will have _all_ products installed. This could mean an extraordinary amount of additional disk space. For release 10.5 a fresh install of all products required a system tablespace of 125M; in 10.6 at least 275Mb is required, and this is just for one set of books.
The second point I wanted to bring up is that although all the objects are installed, you are not prevented from using other 3rd party software in conjunction with the Oracle products you purchased licenses for. You may have to increase the amount of disk space required on the machine to accomodate release 10.6, but no one is forcing you to purchase and implement the other modules.
- Christina DeMello
Christina DeMello, Sr. Technical Analyst Applications Systems Assurance & Remote Installation Services Oracle Worldwide Customer Support
Email: cdemello_at_us.oracle.com, cdemello_at_mit.edu X-URL: http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/home.html
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Received on Wed Jan 10 1996 - 00:00:00 CET