"DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message
news:1119570257.545835_at_yasure...
> Mark Bole wrote:
>> DA Morgan wrote:
>>
>>> Andreas Sheriff wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> My eyes are starting to turn inside out.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have a good grasp on Oracle licensing?
>>>>
>>>> We currently have Oracle Enterprise 8.1.5 installed.
>>>> Is 8.1.7 considered an update or another product altogether?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 8.1.7 is considered unsupported and obsolete.
>>>
>>> The only reason to move to 8.1.7 from 8.1.5 would be if you
>>> made really bad purchasing decision from a third-party vendor
>>> in which case you would need to know what the original license
>>> said.
>>
>>
>> Another reason would be to migrate to 9i, which is only supported coming
>> from 8.1.7.4, not 8.1.5.
>>
>> AFAIK, Oracle RDBMS licensing covers all versions. It's the CPU or named
>> users you are licensing (capacity), not the version. But you need paid
>> support to download patches.
>>
>> -Mark Bole
>
> Are you sure? 10gR1 contains upgrade scripts going back to 8.0.5. as
> follows:
>
> 0800080.sql
> 0801050.sql
> 0801060.sql
> 0801070.sql
> 0900010.sql
> 0902000.sql
> --
> Daniel A. Morgan
> http://www.psoug.org
> damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
> (replace x with u to respond)
According to the OCP tests, an upgrade to 10gR1 can only come from 8.06,
8.1.7, 9.x. I don't know why you see scripts going back to 8.0.5, but I
wouldn't run them. They're probably like the RBO in 10g. It's there, but
it's no longer supported.
--
Andreas
Oracle 9i Certified Professional
Oracle 10g Certified Professional
Oracle 9i Certified PL/SQL Developer
"If you don't eat your meat, you cannot have any pudding.
"How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?!?!"
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