Re: 5 instances = too much ???

"Terry Dykstra" <dontreply_tdykstra_at_cfol.ab.ca> wrote in message news:9pDD6.34$iw5.25870_at_news0.telusplanet.net...
> So how do you deal with different application vendors who certify their
> applications only on specific versions of Oracle?

My company is dealing with a Vendor who is asking us to create a seperate instance for their product. Consensus is: do what the vendor wants, so we can be assured of getting support later on.

However, so far, the other vendor I've dealt with who claims to support Oracle 8 really didn't have an Oracle expert on staff and their product doesn't completly work with Oracle 8 due to datatype inconsistencies between their app and Oracle.

The new vendor claims to support 8i but sent us 7.3 create database/instance scripts and won't followup with 8i documentation.

I think that most vendors that ask, without reason, for a seperate instance because they don't know that much about Oracle (easy to write portable code via ODBC and ANSI SQL) and view a distinct instance on the customer side as the easiest way to enable their organization to support the product.

-greg

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