Re: Reasons to upgrade from Oracle 7.3.4 to 8i

It doesn't matter that Oracle no longer supports 7.3.4 and any changes in hardware/OS/etc may force an upgrade? Extended Maintenance Support ends at the end of 2002, so that's it for bug fixes (I wonder if that includes security patches?). Certification with supported products, newer OS versions or new compilers stopped in December 2000. We cycle our servers out every 3-5 years, so I routinely keep my systems up to date in anticipation of server changes - especially OS changes since they happen a couple of times over the life of a server.

Glenn Stauffer

On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 09:33, Andrey Bronfin wrote:
> Dear gurus !
> I can't tell them "upgrade because 8.1.7 delivers better performance ,
> availability etc...and 7.3.4 is outdated" , they simply won't buy it.
> They run that OPS 7.3.4 DB for several years now and are quite happy with
> it.
> I need to explain in details why they should invest in the upgrade.

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