Re: Oracle and Digital drop Support of VAX/VMS post 1999.

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In article <66hcba$kf4$1_at_nclient3-gui.server.virgin.net>, "David Jones" <david_j.jones_at_virgin.net> writes:
:I have heard rumour that Oracle and Digital are informing customers that
:support of VAX/VMS will be dropped at 23:59 on 31st December 1999.
:
:Has anyone any more information on the matter?
:
:Is this Oracle ending support of the database on VAX/VMS?
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:Is this Digital ending support on the operating system?
:
:Is it strictly VAX/VMS or VAX/OpenVMS and Alpha/OpenVMS also?
:
:What versions of the operating system?

  Oracle corporation and DIGITAL have recently announced that Oracle   will discontinue support for the Oracle7 package on OpenVMS VAX.

  Various migrations for current Oracle7 customers on OpenVMS VAX are   available, including migrations to OpenVMS Alpha. (And Oracle and   DIGITAL are offering incentives to help folks migrate to OpenVMS   Alpha.)

  For the direct information from Oracle on this, please see:

    http://www.oracle.com/platforms/dec/html/vax.html

  Per my most recent conversation with the Oracle folks, Oracle Rdb will   not be affected by the Oracle7 announcement, and support for Oracle Rdb   on OpenVMS VAX (and OpenVMS Alpha) will continue.

  DIGITAL's support for OpenVMS VAX (and OpenVMS Alpha) continues -- see   the URLs for the OpenVMS VAX versions supported under the typical   contracts, as well as under the Prior Version Support contracts:

    http://www.digital.com/services/mcs/mcs_support.htm     http://www.digital.com/services/mcs/mcs_priorversion.htm

• pure personal opinion --------------------------- Hoff (Stephen) Hoffman OpenVMS Engineering h*ffman_at_xdelta.enet.dec.c*m headers and addresses munged to avoid automated spammers: junk-e-mail