[Info-vax] online oracle/vms/hp event starts in 10 min.

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Hein RMS van den Heuvel wrote 2011-07-20 05:29:
> On Jul 19, 9:50 am, Jan-Erik Soderholm<jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
> wrote:
>> Volker Halle wrote 2011-07-19 15:36:
>>
>>> Jan-Erik,
>>
>>> thanks for the heads-up, but the event size of 20 seems to have been
>>> exceeded by now ;-)
> :
>> What the heck was they thinking about...
>
> I was at the (small) event.
> Nancy quickly became painfully aware that potential participants were
> being blocked but she not able to do anything about it, at that point.
> Tomorrow session will be set up for many more participants.
>
> The web event was a late addition and a bad cap was picked, probably
> based on a low number of folks having declared interest for the live
> event.

It's a seriously problem with the application if you can't dynamicaly
raise the user limit !

I was early in and got a "seat". I saw each 30 sec someone trying to
connect, they showed up for a moment in the user-list.

One thing that disturbed me a lot, was that the sound wasn't
(at least not as I understood) distributed over the web-event.
I have to dial-in and sit with the phone all the time.

> There were only a dozen folks in the room for the in person session.
> The Oracle Itanium decision is not going to be reversed, but Kevin and
> other friends are trying to make do, best they can and it ain't half
> bad, but please hear for yourself at tomorrows session, or perhaps
> some future in person session as more will be planned.
>
> Hein

I made a few notes. There seems to be some differences between how
Oracle Rdb is handled and how other Oracle products (incl the classic
Oracle DBMS) are handled. As Kevin said, it's only the *version* of
Rdb that will be frozen at 7.3.x (there will never be a 7.4 or 8.0
but there *could* be a 7.3.12.x, as he said). The support and
development will continue more or less as before with support and
verification on any new (Itanium) hardware. Rdb 7.3.2 is planned
to be certified on VMS 8.5 and Poulson, if I remember correctly.

The dates for the different support levels will
rool forward with each GA of the future 7.3.x releases.

So the dates as specified in :
http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lifetime-support-technology-069183.pdf
will continue to change forward.

So, there was some good news, at least for me.

Jan-Erik.