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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Dave wrote 2011-07-25 16:50:
> On Jul 25, 10:14 am, "Syltrem"<syltremz... at videotron.ca>  wrote:
>> "Jan-Erik Soderholm"<jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>  wrote in message
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>> news:j067rn$tqo$1 at news.albasani.net...
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>>> 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:
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>>>>>> Jan-Erik,
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>>>>>> 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...
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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.
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>>> It's a seriously problem with the application if you can't dynamicaly
>>> raise the user limit !
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> Hein
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>>> 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.
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>>> The dates for the different support levels will
>>> rool forward with each GA of the future 7.3.x releases.
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>>> So the dates as specified in :
>>> http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lifetime-support-technology-...
>>> will continue to change forward.
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>>> So, there was some good news, at least for me.
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>>> Jan-Erik.
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>> Does anyone know if there is a transcript or recording of this session ?
>> I'm very much interested to the Oracle (not RDB) side, but could not attend
>> either event
>> Particularly, will Oracle 10.2.0.5 will ever see the light of day on VMS ?
>> I've been told my bug fix will be in 10.2.0.5 but I don't know if that will
>> ever be made now...
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>  From my notes (Notice that these comments refer to the Client only),
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> 1.   The most recent version of Oracle CLIENT for OpenVMS is 10.2.0.5.
> 2.   There will be a release of Oracle CLIENT for OpenVMS version 11g
> some time next year, this will be the last release for Itanium.
> 3.   Oracle Client Version 11g will be elegible for Premium support
> until Jan 2015, and for Extended support until Jan 2018.
>
> Dave
>

That is how I remember it also. All new *server* versions on other
platforms and only the clients upgraded on Itanium.
But talk to Oracle if it is importent for you !