[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/13/2020 5:30 PM, Shael Richmond wrote:
> On Friday, November 13, 2020 at 12:32:11 PM UTC-6, Arne Vajhøj
> wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> Normally the client can talk to n+2.
> 
> We have tested both 10.2.0.4 and 11.2.0.4 VMS clients with Oracle 19c
> and it connects fine.  10g is not officially supported but will work
> for us until those servers get refreshed with 11g clients.   The
> response I got from Oracle is that we are stuck on the server side at
> 19c, but that it is a long term version.

So if you can live with no support on the client lib then it should
be OK for some time.

> We are planning on moving away from OpenVMS but had the x86 version
> as a fallback in case the replacement application took even longer
> than expected.   Now that is not an option.  Hardware support becomes
> the issue for us.
Until HW support on Itanium runs out.

Which it will.

:-(

Arne