[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-11-13 kl. 19:32, skrev Arne Vajhøj:
> On 11/13/2020 12:09 PM, Marc Van Dyck wrote:
>> Jan-Erik Söderholm formulated the question :
>>> Den 2020-11-13 kl. 17:01, skrev Phillip Helbig (undress to reply):
>>>> My guess is that the number who would like Oracle Classic on VMS is much
>>>> smaller.  Can you point to even one person?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'v got a private message (and I think it was mentioned in the event
>>> yesterday from France) that at least two custerers in France have said
>>> that they will leave VMS due to Oracle "Classic" leaving VMS.
>>
>> I'm one of them. Without the Oracle Client, OpenVMS where I work
>> is dead. Fortunately I'll be retired before that. But VSI can write
>> off 25 systems that will never be migrated to X86.
> 
> How is Oracle policy regarding client version vs server version?
> Does server version N require client version N or do they support
> client N-1 to N or N-2 to N or?
> 
> Do you need supported client library?
> 
> Arne
> 
> 

As I understood, the current 11g client kit on VMS will work
(in a supported way) against 188g or 19g on another platform.